Central Excise Chief Commissioner Indrajit Dasgupta sings his way to success
HE is an IRS officer of the 1981 batch, at present Chief Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise at Mysore. Apart from collecting Revenue and preventing evasion, he is happily engaged in promoting Rabinder Sangeet outside Bengal.
Meet Indrajit Dasgupta, a singer by passion, not profession, with several albums to his credit in Bengali and Hindi. His songs are so popular that in one of his albums, Bollywood Icon Amitabh Bachchan in his stentorian voice explained each of the songs of Gurudev Tagore. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4esS-1lMcCk]
His latest album, 'Mor Bina' consisting of eight songs of Tagore, was released last week by Ganapati Sachidananda Swamiji, the pontiff of Avadhoota Datta Peetham in Mysore. The Swamiji himself is renowned for his healing and meditation music.
If music be the food of love ………….. - in his pursuit of music, Mr. Dasgupta is inspired by his wife Mrs. Ratna Dasgupta who is also an IRS officer - a Commissioner of Income Tax and an accomplished guitarist and painter.
We don't know whether Revenue has gone up because of Rabinder Sangeet, but certainly Mysore zone will be a nice place to work in or drop in - what with the Chief Commissioner singing the sweet songs of Gurudev Tagore and the Dasguptas home should be a better place with added attractions of Guitar and paintings.