The 4 decades spanning 1940s through 1970s comprise what may rightly be called the Golden Age of modern Bengali music with extraordinary creative artists blossoming in profuse numbers.  Hemanta Mukhopadhyay, Manna De, Manabendra Mukhopdhyay, Dwijen Mukhopadhyay, Shyamal Mitra, Satinath Mukhopadhyay, Sandhya Mukhopadhyay, Protima Bandyopadhyay, Akhilbandhu Ghosh, Jatileshwar Mukhopadhyay, Sabita Chowdhury, Dhananjay Bhattacharya, to name only a few, along with composers and lyricists such as Salil Chowdhury, Gouriprasanna Majumdar, Pulak Bandyopadhyay, Nachiketa Ghosh and several others.