Renuka Dasgupta

Renuka Dasgupta nee Sengupta was a Bengali singer, considered one of the best-known exponents of the songs of Atulprasad Sen. She was amongst the few singers to learn directly from Atulprasad Sen and Dilipkumar Roy. In 1932, three Indian recording companies were born in Calcutta out of a nationalistic urge to compete with the British-owned Gramophone company of India. One of these was Hindusthan Records. The owner C.C.Saha requested Rabindranath Tagore to record some songs and recitations. From those recordings was published the first record H1. Atulprasad Sen recorded two songs which were published in the second record H2. The third record H3 had the songs 'Jodi gokulachandra braje na elo' (kirtan) and 'Pagla montare tui bandh' (Atulprasad) sung by Renuka Sengupta. Sale for this record reached an unprecedented high mark, such was the popularity of these songs. It is a pity that through biographers' efforts, the performers who inspired Albert Einstein are well-known, but people have forgotten this singer who inspired the two greatest physicists of Bengal, Meghnad Saha and Satyendranath Bose.