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ABOUT

Hindol Chakraborty is the pioneer of Bengali Postmodern Song, and an increasingly recognized Indian singer-songwriter, communicator, music producer, mountain lover, teacher, researcher, and vocalist of Ghazal, Alternative Rock, and Free-Style singing, mostly known for his phenomenal song ‘Kemon Achho’.

Hindol received the prestigious President’s Award in Ghazal in All India Radio Music Competition in 2008 from Akashvani Kolkata. He bagged the 1st prize in Bengali Modern Song in West Bengal State Music Academy Competition in 2008, and also won numerous state and national level competitions. Hindol has performed at various prestigious concerts in India, Bangladesh, and Europe. He is a Guest-Faculty of Indian Vocal Music in Anubhab Academy, Germany. He communicates poetry, philosophy, and lyrics through his songs.

Hindol has lended his voice as a playback singer in films like ‘Vulval: Total Confusion’ under the music direction of Bappa Aurindam, in ‘Sarook se Shahrukh Tak’ and ‘Virus’ under Saikat Chatterjee’s music direction. In ‘Sarook se Shahrukh Tak’, Hindol has collaborated with eminent vocalist Timir Biswas and his band, Fakira. He has sung in an Indo-German documentary movie "Masala Chai" that won the Special Jury Award in Indian Embassy, Berlin. Along with singing, Hindol is an eminent Harmonium exponent, and has accompanied various performers all over the globe.

Besides, Hindol maintains a successful career as a teacher of communication, literature and critical studies, and has worked for the Techno India Group, the largest educational group in eastern India, and has been associated with premiere institutes like Mallabhum Institute of Technology, The New Horizons Institute of Technology, Salesian College (Autonomous) Siliguri and SRM University, Sikkim Campus. Currently, Hindol teaches English literature and critical theory at Swami Vivekananda University Kolkata. Being one of the brightest disciples of Pandit Ramanuj Dasgupta, Hindol adopted the art of meditation through music and monotony from his guru and has applied the art in his own lifestyle. Hindol, as far as his music is concerned, believes in and concentrates on the quality of thoughts, rather than on quantity.

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GROOMING

The Passion For Learning

Hindol has been under the tutelage of his father Sri Shyamal Kumar Chakraborty who has groomed him classically,bearing the heritage of the famous Bishnupur Gharana. Later on, Hindol’s talim and grooming became more intense under famous vocalist, composer, and music designer Pandit Ramanuj Dasgupta, with a growing passion for Ghazal, Najrul Geeti, and Bengali Modern Songs. Hindol has been immensely moved by the presentations of Ustad Mehdi Hassan, Begum Akhtar, Bryan Adams, Hariharan, Nachiketa Chakraborty, Ed Sheeran, Steavy Mahy, Norah Jones. On the other hand, in the field of literature, Hindol’s premiere guides are Robert Browning, John Donne, Samuel Beckett, Bob Dylan, Purnendu Partri, Binoy Majumder, T.S. Eliot, and S.T. Coleridge. They, together, make the backbone of Hindol’s work and lifestyle. Musically, Hindol is now the disciple of Ustad Sabir Khan, the tabla maestro and an iconic exponent of Ghazal. Celebrated Tabla and Ghazal maestro Ustad Tari Khan has been one of the guiding stars in Hindol’s musical journey.

In Germany, Hindol came under the flamboyance of musical phenomena like Ustad Zakir Hussain, Shankar Mahadevan, U. Srinivas, V. Selvaganesh, and Jazz guitar maestro John Maclaughlin. He shares a free communication with them that makes him determined to maintaining a deep root toward quality music and poetry.

Hindol is a student of English literature, holding a 1st Class Master’s Degree and a doctoral award in classical theory of Art and the Sublime. Hindol proudly considers Cynthia L. Haven, celebrated American literary scholar, author, critic, Slavicist and journalist, his academic mentor who relentlessly motivates and inspires him to write, translate and rewrite.

Shri Shyamal Kumar Chakraborty

Shri Ramanuj Dasgupta

ACHIEVEMENTS

President’s Award in Ghazal from All India Radio, Kolkata in 2008.
1st Prize Winner in Bengali Modern Song category in West Bengal State Music Academy Competition in 2008.
Graded artiste of Bengali Modern Songs, Najrul Geeti, and Ghazal in All India Radio, Kolkata.
1st Prize Winner in Bengali Modern Song Category in West Bengal Youth Festival.
Sangeet Praveen, Sangeet Acharya, and Sangeet Shastry in Classical Vocal from Nikhil Bharat Sangeet Kala Samiti, West Bengal.
Junior Diploma in Najrul Geeti from Prayag Sangeet Samiti, Allahabad.
Prize winner in Najrul Geeti in Rupamanjari Competition, organized in memory of legendary artiste Late Shri Dhiren Basu.

CERTIFICATIONS

PRESIDENT'S AWARD

AT A GLANCE

GENRES

Ghazal, Alternative Rock, Country, Folk, Bengali Postmodern Song. The last one is Hindol’s own coinage. He is continuously developing this special type of Bengali songs with his own style and distinctiveness.
Hindol in his tender age, was hugely influenced by the presentation and singing of legendary music icon Nachiketa Chakraborty. Later, he underwent a significant journey with his guru Sri Ramanuj Dasgupta, Ustad Mehdi Hassan, and Hariharan, and decided to specialize in an almost forgotten field, Ghazal. His academic background clinched him toward iconic foreign poets and singer-songwriters like Bryan Adams, Norah Jones, Ed Sheeran, and Hindol started to sharpen his skills in poetry and delivery of songs. His musical root was strongly changed toward alternative rock, ballad, country music and Jazz. Hindol says,” Well, music doesn’t bear different genres. The main thing is music, a single genre. It changes forms on the basis of our understanding of certain moments.”

RESEARCH and PUBLICATIONS

Being a student of English Literature, Hindol has always been inclined to poetry, but he took “Criticism” as his specialization area. He took Longinus, the famous classical teacher of rhetoric and his treatise On the Sublime which was considered to be the finest doctrine on oratory. His Ph. D. thesis, entitled “On the Sublime: Reflections”, is a mammoth work on style, an investigation in search of the “sublime” in almost every aspect of art. Hindol has authored a book entitled On the Sublime: Criticism, Longinus, the Beautiful in 2023. He has edited two books so far, Tagore and More: Selected Stories (https://www.amazon.in/TAGORE-Selected-Stories-Rabindranath-Tagore/dp/819535582X) and Palli Samaj, the Homecoming (https://www.amazon.in/Palli-Samaj-Sarat-Chandra-Chattopadhya/dp/8195355862). Hindol has translated Rantidev Sengupta's phenomenal historical fiction Ishqnama (https://www.amazon.in/Ishqnama-Rantidev-Sengupta/dp/9393711038) that has established him as one of the specialists in the regime of translation. Currently, Hindol works on the post-genocide Nuclear Sublime, Mimetic Theory in Indian mythologies, Translators' Memoirs and the problems in translating ghazals. Hindol is also the pioneer of the Crick-God Theory that premises on the psycho-sexual discourse of masculinity and Cricket. His publication details are as follows:

An Introspection into the Heart of the Sublime: Longinus and Beyond. Multi-Disciplinary Research Series. SRM University Sikkim. Vol-IV. September, 2024. P. 48.
Longinus’s ‘Sublime’: An Analytical Interpretation of the Concept, Stages, and its Importance to Literary Criticism. Contemporary Society: Its Extensions, Formations and Technicways. Salesian Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences. ISSN: 0976-1861. Vol-XIV-Issue-1. May, 2023. P. 13.
B for Bollywood, B for Bromance: Projection of Male Sexuality and Homoerotics on Post-377 Bollywood Screens. Screen Cultures. Salesian Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences. ISSN: 0976-1861. Vol-XIII-Issue-2. December, 2022. P. 41.
When the Micro Plays the Macro: Looking Back to George Eliot and her Minor Characters. Revisiting George Eliot: Her Life & Works. Salesian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences in collaboration with Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, Delhi University. ISSN: 0976-1861. Vol-XII-Issue-2. January, 2022. P. 79.
Postcolonialism as a Thread between Feminism and Orientalism: A Critical Perspective. Langlit. Latur, Maharashtra. ISSN: 2349-5189. Vol-7-Issue-2. December, 2020.
Presence of the ‘Sublime’ in Nineteenth Century Opera: A Longinian Perspective with Grandeur, Attempted and Failed. Proceeding of ASAR International Conference. Bhubaneswar: Institute for Technology and Research. ISBN: 978-93-89732-91-7. P. 1.
Sublimity of Horror: War Poets and the Sublime Terror. Research Scholar. Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. ISSN: 2320-6101. Vol-8-Issue-3. August, 2020.
Language of Poetry and a Discourse between Wordsworth and Coleridge: A Sublime Overview. Literary Herald. Chitrakoot, Madhya Pradesh. ISSN: 2454-3365. Vol-6-Issue-2. August, 2020.
The ‘Sublime’ in Seventeenth-Century Oratory: A Compare-Contrast Study. Studies in Indian Place Names. New Delhi. ISSN: 2394-3114. Vol-40-Issue-70. March, 2020. (UGC CARE List).
Memory, Expectation and Failure in the Theatre and Film Productions of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie: A Case Study for the book Memory Studies in the Digital Age: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (Ed. Dr. D. Sudha Rani and Rachel Irdaya Raj) published by Routledge. 2025. ISBN: 9781032760490.
Speaking of the Pop-heart of Northeast: Meditating on the “Land” and Looking at Lou Majaw’s Music as a Discourse of Hope and Finding in Language, Culture and Border Identities (Ed. Dr. A. C. Kharingpam and Saima Malik) published by SLC India Publishers, Noida and London. 2024. ISBN: 978819629567-7. P. 137-152.
Towards a Loss of Innocence: Adolescence Issues in Swami and Friends in R. K. Narayan: Modern Critical Analyses (Ed. Dr. Santanu Ganguly and Dr. Jayeeta Ray) published by Upanayan Publications, New Delhi. 2022. ISBN: 978-93-91467-31-9. P. 8-13.
From Sudraka’s Vasantasena to Bessie Head’s Dikeledi: A Journey of ‘New’ Women from ‘Periphery’ to ‘Centre’. Women Development (Ed. Dr. Neelam Kumari). Ranchi: Institute for Social Development and Research. ISBN: 978-81-952235-0-3. 2021. P. 10.

Ongoing Projects

Book chapter entitled The Sublime and the Bubbles in Philip K. Dick’s “The Trouble with Bubbles: An Investigation on Simulation for the book Virtual Reality Literature to be published by Routledge in November, 2025.

Book chapter entitled Power, its Subject, and the Land: Faizabad and the British Raj in Rantidev Sengupata’s Ishqnama for an edited book to be published by SAGE Publications in February, 2025.
An Anthology of 50 Bengali Poems to be published by IMPRINT, New Delhi in January 2025.
Book entitled Tennessee Williams: From Stage to Screen to be published by IMPRINT, New Delhi in March 2025.

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VIDEO LINKS:

KEMON ACHHO: https://youtu.be/YodyBMJBJAw
GONDHO, the Smell: https://youtu.be/kfanLKX1r7Y
O DUCHOKHE TOMAR RONG LEGECHHE: https://youtu.be/uzKByBbXcWQ
BABY: https://youtu.be/HPFqp58K7_8
RANJISH HI SAHI, Ghazal: https://youtu.be/993YuLxZwaU
BAAT KARNI MUJHE MUSHKIL, Ghazal: https://youtu.be/DzEYsVR0QhU
OSHORIRI CHAND: https://youtu.be/A0zimCgkv-0
PAGOL: https://youtu.be/RXQT-aFLORs
AMI BRISTI CHAI: https://youtu.be/TfvtNHpTi98
BHORDUPURE: https://youtu.be/J8ASc7ojJ-U