“My mother wanted to study at Tagore’s Visva Bharati, so she brought my elder sister and me along and enrolled us in Patha Bhavana (the ashram school in Visva Bharati). His own journey from Dhaka, Bangladesh to Santiniketan in West Bengal as a seven-year-old had been largely unremarkable, except for his mother’s palpable excitement. But most of all, it’s about the journeys you undertake, real and metaphysical.” It’s about love and nostalgia, about emotions you haven’t felt before. It’s about discovering yourself and the world around you, learning how to negotiate with society and culture. Later, after the evening’s schedule has been wrapped up, sitting on the studio steps, Arnob says, “So much of music is about happiness. He is in India with his band to record songs for a collaborative venture with musicians from Bengal, organised by the Kolkata-based social enterprise Banglanatak dot com. Arnob’s brand of music - fusion renditions of Rabindrasangeet, folk songs and pop ballads Rabindranath Tagore’s Majhe majhe tobo dekha pai sung to guitar chords or a modern take on Malvina Reynolds’ timeless song Little boxes (Bakshe bakshe bondi baksho) - has struck a chord with the audience in his country and Bengal. Even though he is not at the microphone, it is familiar territory for the 37-year-old Bangladeshi musician, one of the country’s most popular artistes.
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