The music of Bengal, folk, maritime, popular, modern, revolutionary, avate-garde, even classically based, has typically been path-breaking for well over 100 years.  Even so, between the 1940s and late 1970s- it blossomed into multiple directions accompanied by composers, lyricists and of course performers of the very highest order who have set up a standard everything since those "Golden Age" decades have only been at best efforts at replicating the genius of that period.  I will post a series of articles highlighting the great creative figures of this epochal, post-renaissance period.