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Forgotten Tunes: Memories of Tebhaga and three songs of Hemango Biswas

Hemango Biswas was a leading composer, singer, writer, and activist of the Indian leftist cultural movement known as the IPTA. In the 1940s, while organising and travelling across Assam and Bengal, he composed several songs inspired by the peasant movements, including the historic Tebhaga. The three previously unrecorded songs in this music video were composed by him against the backdrop of the Bengal famine of 1943 and the peasant struggles. Two have been almost forgotten, although they were considered some of the most popular and inspiring songs of their day. I interviewed two old comrades of Hemango Biswas in 2018. Segments of those interviews and excerpts from Biswas’s own memoirs have been used here to provide a context to these compositions. Sona Singh’s interview was taken in May, 2018. In the narration, ‘last year’ refers to that, since the audio recording was done in May 2019. Two lines of a version of the song ‘Dukhero Ratero’ and ‘Kastetare Dio Jore Shan’ in Hemango Biswas’s voice can be heard on    • A PERFORMANCE OF IPTA SONGS BY IPTA ARTIST...   Somnath Hore’s description contains the name of a traditional song of Rangpur as ‘Denar Bnodhua Tui’. Possibly he means ‘Dangor Bnodhua Tui’. #Hemango Biswas #Nirmalendu Chowdhuri # Somnath Hore #Prasun Majumdar # Sona Singh # Farmers' movement # Peasant struggle #Tebhaga # Bengali Folk Song#