11 Facts About Santidev Ghosh

Tagore encouraged Santidev Ghosh to act and dance in the poet-laureate's dance dramas, for which Santidev Ghosh displayed an uncommon talent for singing, as well as dancing and acting.

Santidev Ghosh garnered fame as author and an authority, on Asian music and especially that of Rabindranath Tagore.

The Minister for Communication and Information Technology noted that Santidev Ghosh "belonged to that class of musicians who through the ages carried forward music's unique creativity".

Santidev Ghosh was born on 24 Baisakh 1317 in the village of Bajapti near Chandpur.

Santidev Ghosh's father was Kalimohan Ghosh, who worked with Rabindranath Tagore from before Santidev Ghosh was born, and was closely associated in the setting up the Rural Reconstruction Unit at Visva-Bharati.

Santidev Ghosh had his school education at the Santiniketan Ashrama Vidyalaya, which Tagore had founded in 1901.

Santidev Ghosh joined Visva-Bharati University as a teacher in 1930, when he was 20 years old.

Santidev Ghosh served as the principal of the institute between 1964 and 1968 and between 1971 and 1973.

Santidev Ghosh was appointed a member of the Advisory Board of Akasvani, Calcutta in 1948 and served as a member of the publication committee of the Sangeet-Natak Akademi, New Delhi.

Santidev Ghosh was the president of the music section of Prabasi Bango Sahitya Sammelan and Assam Sahitya Sammelan.

Santidev Ghosh visited the United Kingdom, Japan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the former USSR to acquaint himself with the culture and traditions of those countries and to propagate the ideals of Rabindranath.