Pandit Debu Chaudhuri: A âMridubhashiâ Stalwart of the Jaipur-Senia Tradition
For him, the love of music was purely a matter of personal interest even as he walked into a sitar class in his village school that started a love affair which lasted a lifetime, and indeed beyond.
Pandit Debu Chaudhuri. Photo: Bharat Tiwari
Pandit Devabrata (Debu) Chaudhuri was born in 1935 to businessman Bishweshwar Chaudhuri and Hiran Bala Devi in Ramgopalpur in present-day Bangladesh. In an interview to RSTV, he had said, âWe did not have any musicians in our family⦠even in the extended network, across generations!” For him, the love of music was purely a matter of personal interest even as he walked into a sitar class in his village school that started a love affair which lasted a lifetime, and indeed beyond.