Vidushi Ruchira Panda, is the global face of Kotali Gharana today.

Over the years, the present Kotali style took the shape in the hands of Pandit Manas Chakraborty, a combination of musical purity and eclecticism, the practice of deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources. The aesthetics of the raga, expression, lyrics and thoughts. He had a journey similar to Ustad Allauddin Khan’s, coming to Kolkata penniless from Kotalipara ( currently in Bangladesh ) to learn classical music. Sangeetacharya Tarapada Chakraborty (1909-1975), was the first Pan-Indian Khayaliya from Bengal and the pioneer of Kotali Gharana. KotaliPara had been a hotbed of intellectual excellence for ages, especially in music, art and scholarship. “Kot” stands for fort, “Ali” signifies “wall and area surrounding the fort”, and “para” means a settlement or “a neighbourhood”. Kotalipara in the Faridpur Zilla of East Bengal (presently Bangladesh) owes its origin to “Chandraburmankot” erected there, circa 315 AD, the remains of which are still extant. Notable in this devotional poetry is an earthiness that does not distinguish between love in its carnal and devotional forms some see connections between this and Tantra, which originated sometime in the middle of the first millennium CE. Another writer of the time was Vidyapati. Much of the early canon is devotional, as in the Hindu devotional songs of Ramprasad Sen a bhakta who captures the Bengali ethos in his poetic, rustic, and ecstatic vision of the Hindu goddess of time and destruction in her motherly incarnation, Ma Kali. The Middle Ages saw a mixture of Hindu and Islamic trends when the musical tradition was formalized under the patronage of Sultan and Nawabs and the powerful landlords baro bhuiyans. The earliest music in Bengal was influenced by Sanskrit chants, and evolved under the influence of Vaishnav poetry such as the 13th-century Gitagovindam by Jayadeva, whose work continues to be sung in many eastern Hindu temples.

West Bengal is still referred to as Bengal in the rest of India. The Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent is currently split between the Indian state of West Bengal and the country of Bangladesh.

Composed with lyrics in the Bengali language, Bengali music spans a wide variety of styles. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)īengali music ( Bengali: বাংলা সংগীত) comprises a long tradition of religious and secular song-writing over a period of almost a millennium. JSTOR ( July 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.

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