Interestingly, in 1944 Arnold Bake had notated several Gourchadrikas which he had learned from his teacher,…

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Interestingly, in 1944 Arnold Bake had notated several Gourchadrikas which he had learned from his teacher, Sadhu Baba. Oliver Weeks had sung the song notated below, while Nirmalendu Mitra Thakur had sung the same song as he knew it when we went to Maindadal for the third time in January 2016.

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