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| Website | http://dakshinee.co.in |
Dakshinee is one of the music academies in Kolkata. It primarily focuses on teaching and promoting the Rabindrasangeet. [1] [2]
Suvo Guha Thakurta [3] was a devotee of Rabindrasangeet. He wanted to spread it among Bengali masses which were then confined primarily to Santiniketan. On the advice of Shailaranjan Majumdar, he founded Dakshinee on 8 May 1948.
Dakshinee started with only 12 students. By 1955 it had 600 students. Between 1962 and 1972 the student strength was over 1500.
Since inception it has had four functioning sections:
In 2008, Dakshinee proposed to publish a special edition on the occasion of its Diamond Jubilee Celebrations.
This institute was earlier started at 132, Rashbehari Avenue. In 1955, it was moved to Dakshinee Bhawan, 1 Deshapriya Park (West) where it has remained.
Although the institute professes to teach Rabindranath Tagore's ideals through his music, [5] it has been alleged that Dakshinee believes in instilling a sense of fear among the rank and file of its students, an idea that is contrary to Tagore's own views on any kind of learning.
Dakshinee follows its own discrete notation, disregarding the notation accepted and printed by the bishwa-bharati.
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