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mass songs Songs of Consciousness and Awakening As you can see, most of these songs were composed during the '40s and '50s. I definitely believe that this was the most important period in Salil's life.As a young man, just after school, he started writing songs and according to his childhood friends who later joined IPTA with him, his main musical influence were Rabindranath Tagore, Pankaj Mullick, Jyotirindra Moitra (who wrote the 23-song epic "Nabajeebaner Gaan") etc. However, quite quickly Salil found his own niche and with his increasingly developing political ideas and his brilliant writing and composing skills he started composing songs which till today are considered landmarks in modern Bengali music. These songs were his political and social statements. Musically and lyrically unparalelled. To know and understand Salil one must know these songs. A complete collection of these songs is very difficult to obtain. In fact, I still discover songs composed by Salil, never recorded but they are known to the handful of IPTA members still around.Recently a wonderful book called 'Ganasangeet Sangraha' was published compiled by Subrata Rudra. This book has managed to print most of these songs uncensored. Some of the lyrics of Salil's songs were so fiery that they were censored before they were performed or recorded. Good examples are 'Naaker bodoley noruun peluum' and "Hei saamaalo dhann ho". The most recent (2005) publication of well-researched "Sei Baansiwaalaah" by Gononatya Prokashon has now published quite a few of Salil's mass songs along with his writings. A must have book for all Salil lovers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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