Buddhadev Das Gupta

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Padmabhushan Pandit Buddhadev Dasgupta (Bengali: বুদ্ধদেব দাশগুপ্ত Buddhodeb Dashgupto, 1 February 1933 - 15 January 2018) was an Indian classical musician who plays the sarod. Pandit Buddhadev Dasgupta used to reside in Kolkata, India. He was one of the artists featured in Nimbus Records' The Raga Guide. Buddhadev Dasgupta was born in 1933 in Bhagalpur, India to parents Prafulla Mohan Dasgupta and Bhabani Dasgupta. His father was District Magistrate by profession and an avid lover of music although he never learnt music. Since childhood little Buddhadev grew up with a musical atmosphere at his home. At a very early age he started taking Sarod lessons from the eminent Sarod maestro Sangitachrya sri Radhika Mohan Maitra. His first program in the All India Radio was as a guest artist. He has done more than 17 national programs in All India Radio, which is a very rare incident among known Indian Classical Musicians. Besides his world-wide fame as a Sarod maestro, Pandit Buddhadev Dasgupta has had an equally brilliant track record in academics. He stood 2nd in the Matriculation Examination, held in 1948. He studied Mechanical Engineering at the prestigious Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, which was then affiliated to the University of Calcutta and stood 2nd. He received the honorary D.Litt degree from the Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur (his alma mater) at its annual convocation on 16 February 2010. In 2011, Sarod maestro B

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Raag Nayak Ki Kanra

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The Raga Guide (Disc 2)

Raga Jaijaivanti, Raga Kedar & Raga Gorakh Kalyan

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The Raga Guide (Disc 1)

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The Raga Guide (Disc 4)

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The Raga Guide (Disc 3)

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Raga Jaijaivanti, Raga Kedar, Raga Gorakh Kalyan

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Raga Guide: A Survey of 74 Hindustani Ragas Disc 1

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Raga Guide (Disc 1)

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