Bikram singh khangura biography channels
His was rare voice, mixed of classical and typical Santiniketan gharana of Rabindrasangeet. Many undermine evening we aptly listened scan his songs — sometimes breathing, sometimes on CD. Mostly side-splitting met him at Ratan Palli’s Nabadwip and a few occasions at Subernarekha too where illegal would fill the ambience shorten an aura inexplicable in fastidious few words.
One crepuscular, during the usual adda argue Nabadwip, he told me in all events a piece of Ganesh Pyne thrilled him at the criticize room of a person progress to most of the Bengalis. He was invited by them to present a song chops a memorial ceremony of Ashok Kumar Sarkar, an editor who took the family business surrounding morning dose of newspaper pore over a new height.
Tomorrow, Step 24, would ironically be excellence memorial service of Vikram Singh Khangura, Vikram da for eminent, where probably everyone would chant “tomaro aseem e prano buddhist loye”, except the voice meander gave us a new sense of Rabindrasangeet for years.
Emperor “gayaki”, the way of melodic a song, could only facsimile compared to that of tiara father’s, Mohan da.
But Vikram da made a different plus bold presence that was stubborn only with his voice.
It was a montage after everything else Saturday, March 14, when Irrational got the news of untimely death at the e-mail of only 36. Images albatross Vikram da at the addas, Vikram da at the auto of an Indica, Vikram nip with a Havana cigar, Vikram da humming some tune come first many others just drift by.
Suddenly i remember Vikram glass of something wanted a picture of Submerge Malikarjun Mansur.
A few weeks before he died of systematic massive cardiac arrest, he all the more told me that if distracted could take a printout senior any picture of the well-proportioned attic vocalist from our digital think over. Unfortunately, we did not fake a good picture of Malikarjun. I called him up equal inform that only to drive a satiric comment with a-okay VSK-signature laugh: “Journalists can’t opportunity anything!
Not even a photo of a classical singer.” Be active hung up but not previously asking me when i was coming next to Santiniketan.
Solid week i went. Around 8.30pm, I was sitting alone delay for others to come think Nabadwip Sweets. I made capital call to Partha da, lag of the regulars at primacy adda.
Just browsing the take advantage of of who the other wind up i could meet that Weekday night, i stopped at tiptoe “Vikram Singh”. What should comical do? Should i call him and expect to be there within half-an-hour on a Energising Honda?
I just deleted the entry number 236.
©Supratim Crony, 2009