KAMAL DASGUPTA 28/07/1912 to 20/07/1974 BENGALI LYRICIST, AND COMPOSER UNFORGETTABLE CREATIONS SARASIJ MAJUMDER An average of 45 songs composed, and recorded per month, in 1946 income tax of 37 thousand taka(Rs.37,000/-) paid by him. He never set foot without a car on the streets of Calcutta. THE GOLDEN ERA OF BENGALI MOERN SONG( LIGHT) , MILDLY CLASSICAL, AND MELODIOUS, STARTED WITH HIS COMPOSITIONS. The composer was a man of taste. He owned a Buick, a rare thing in Calcutta in the 1950s. He was a great human being. He fed hundreds of people during the Bengal famine. He was also extremely fond of cricket. In the last life, he had to open a grocery store in Dhaka, for survival. Love had made him a BEGGER. And he died a PAUFFER . EARLY LIFE AND CALCUTTA : Kamal Dasgupta was born on July 28, 1912 in Benda village of Kalia police station, Jessore, in EAST BENGAL (Now Bangladesh). H...