Shyama

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Ashok Kumar Ganguly

Bio

Ashok Kumar Ganguly has for many years been directing, conducting and participating in various shows, festivals and radio programmes arranged by Visva-Bharati University, including Rabindranath Tagore’s musical-dramas and dance-operas, in Santiniketan, elsewhere in India and South East Asia. In 1972, he was one of the singers in a University production of Shyama which toured Bangladesh. He was a Rabindra Sangeet artiste at All India Radio from 1978 to 1983 and has appeared on Kolkata and national TV as a solo singer, in choruses and as an actor.

Ashok Kumar Ganguly is a Professor and the Principal of Sangeet Bhavan, Visva-Bharati University, where he was previouslyHead of the Department of Rabindra Sangeet, dance and drama. He has been teaching Rabindra Sangeet since 1980. He was a solo singer on the 1982 HMV LP of Tagore’s Kalmrigaya.

Appearing as:

Kotal (singer)