Sunday, September 22, 2013
PADMABHUSHAN PANDIT BUDDHADEV DAS GUPTA is an Indian classical musician who plays the sarod. Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta resides in Kolkata,
India. He is one of the artists featured in Nimbus Records's The
Raga Guide.
Buddhadev Das
Gupta was born in 1 February 1933 in his maternal home at 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 Classiscal Musicians.
Besides his world-wide
fame as a Sarod maestro, Pandit Buddhadev Dasgupta has had a equally
brilliant track record in Academics. He stood 2nd in the Matriculation Examination,
held in 1948. He studied Mechanical Engineering at the
prestigious Bengal Engineering College, 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 Buddhadeb Dasgupta, was offered the Padma Shree by the government of
India, but he turned it down saying "it was far too late in the day".
In Jan 2012, he has been conferred with Padma Bhushan by Govt. of India.
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