“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.”
— James McNeill Whistler
In current times to the COVID-19 pandemic, artists across in our country the arts spectrum are suffering from difficulties arising due to loss of livelihood and no means of sustenance.
#SavetheArtist, is an initiative, which is conducting a series of online interactions with the eminent artists of Indian Classical Music, Dance, Folk dance, tribe Arts and Craft, Media, Culture, Theater and Literature on the challenges they are facing during this COVID-19 pandemic and the uncertainties that surround their art forms. It is founded by eminent Educationist and cultural evangelist, Suman Doonga, who has inspired thousands of students over the years through her result oriented inspiring work also as Media Director of SPIC MACAY, a global volunteer movement promoting Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth.
In these trying times for artists, #SaveTheArtist has started its latest initiative, The ‘Meet & Greet Series’ for supporting the artists across the country. This initiative has received wide support by eminent persons from across the arts and media industry.
globalbihari.com is proud to get associated with the cause and serialise the efforts to save the artists.
Also see: Save The Artist Campaign – 19
Meet & Greet Series
Sucharita Gupta – Vocalist
A disciple of the thumri singer Vidushi Savita Devi, Sucharita Gupta is one of the singers in Banaras Gharana (Purab ang). Over the years she is trying to save all the traditional songs of Banaras carefully.
Sucharita is daughter of Mrinal Kanti Dutta, an Indian classical and semi-classical vocalist. She was born and brought up in a Bengali family in Assam with an inborn love for music. This passion for music was discovered at the age of six by her father, and he arranged a Guru for her formal training of Indian classical music.
But her learning of classical music methodically started under the guidance of Padmashree Siddheshwari Devi’s daughter Vidushi Savita Devi, a leading vocalist from the esteemed Banaras Gharana, only after she came to Delhi from Assam at the age of thirteen. At that time she knew no other language other than Bengali and Assamese, but she never let it to be an obstruction in her path of learning imperceptibly Banarasi Thumri, Dadra, Holi, Chaiti etc under Vidushi Savita.
– global bihari bureau
