The first of October. There is no trace of a dirty black quilt in the Ashwin sky. Rafts of white autumn clouds across the skies of Bengal. Below, waves of kash flowers stretching to the horizon. Was it on just such a day that an immortal legend of Bengali music, Sachin Dev Burman, was born? One whose magic of melody enchanted everyone from Lata Mangeshkar to Kishore Kumar, Hemanta Mukhopadhyay to Manna Dey, and singers and listeners of nearly every generation. One whose voice held a wondrous nas...
