Ruma Guha Thakurta with Kishore Kumar and Amit Kumar

Published in SOCIETY in September 2009 issue.

Calcutta Youth Choir: Performs in St. James School

The Calcutta Youth Choir performs at St. James' School. The choir sang 14 folk songs, taking the audience on a musical journey across the Indian subcontinent and beyond. Folk tunes from Odisha, Assam, Maharashtra and Goa had the audience tapping their feet. A love song from Czech Republic and a medley from the Ivory Coast and Israel added an international flavour to the evening. Pianist Rajlakshmi Syam got the show rolling with musical notes from Russia and concluded her recital with Piyu bole piya bole. "The Calcutta Youth Choir is known for its cultural bent and the concert stood true to the ethos and tradition that St. James' upholds," said principal T.H. Ireland. Picture by Koushik Saha

https://www.telegraphindia.com/1170222/jsp/calcutta/story_137094.jsp#.WK23CBJ961s

Musical Tracks of Calcutta Youth Choir | Direction Ruma Guha Thakurta

Buy online musical tracks of Calcutta Youth Choir from Saregama HMV

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** Wrong file associated with "Paye Chala Pather Halo Suru"  This is not Calcutta Youth Choir version.

Old Song Choir

Jagare Jagare jaga sara sansaar

Phooti kiran lali khultha hei poorav

Ka dwar

Angadai lethi hai dharthi uti hei

Sadiyo se tukkarai mith uti hei

O, toote gulami ke bhandan hazar

Aya zamanave apna zamana

Kismath ka yerona jana puranna

O, badalenge hum apne jeevan kee

Nandiyan ke dhar

Pete Seeger Tribute performance by Calcutta Youth Choir

Subho Naba Barsha 1421

Smt. Ruma Guha Thakurta

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Calcutta Youth Choir

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Few Moments of 55th Annual Show Calcutta Youth Choir

Calcutta Youth Choir 55th Annual Show June 11th, 2013

Posted on The Telegraph, June 12th, 2013

Calcutta Youth Choir Annual Show 2013

Calcutta Youth Choir

55th Annual Show

11th June 2013, 6:00 PM at Rabindra Sadan, Kolkata

Calcutta Youth Choir 54th Annual Show 9th April 2012: A Few Moments

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Happy New Year 2013

Ruma Guha Thakurta

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Members of Calcutta Youth Choir

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Calcutta Youth Choir 54th Annual Show 9th April 2012

Published in Anandabazar on April 16th, 2012

Ruma Guha Thakurta and Satyajit Ray

Ruma Guha Thakurta and Satyajit Ray on Rays birthday in 1988 at his Bishop Lefroy Rd residence.

Thanks to facebook Rare And Uncommon Photos

Ruma Guha Thakurta

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Members of Calcutta Youth Choir

wishes Happy New Year 2012

A Few Glimpses of Ruma Guha Thakurta's 77th Birthday in Mumbai

Photos from www.celebmirror.com/ and NDTV

In occasion of Rumadi's 77th birthday celebration

Published in http://www.freepressjournal.in/

Madhubala the reason behind Kishores split with Ruma?

In her first ever interview, Kishore Kumars first wife Ruma Guha Thakurta talks about the singer, the reason they separated and being the blessed soul

LIPIKA VARMA

Legendary singer Kishore Kumars first wife Ruma Guha Thakurta celebrated her birthday recently with her close family members at the singers Juhu residence with great pomp and show.

Ruma, who turned 77 this year, married Kishore in 1951. The couple had a son, Amit Kumar, now a decent singer in his own right. Of course, the couple separated after a brief period, after which the maverick went on to marry actress Madhubala, Yogita Bali and Leena Chandavarkar in quick succession.

But Ruma Guha Thakurta, aka Ruma Ghosh, seems to still be in awe of the man with the golden voice.

Turning nostalgic a teary- eyed Ruma says, " I still remember Kishore for the golden heart that he possessed.

He may have married four times, but while I was leaving for Calcutta his eyes had turned moist and with choked throat he had requested me a hundred times or more to not leave him. He had said, 'Ruma, tumi keno jachho? Tumi ekhanei thako ( Ruma, why are you going? Please stay here).'" But prod her about what made her leave such a loving husband? It is said that Kishore worked doubly hard to afford every luxury for his wife, but Ruma maintains a stoic silence.

But then as an afterthought she suddenly talks, " It happened when Amit was barely a few years old. Kishore had married actress Madhubala and she was staying with us. When one fine morning she came to my room and said 'Abhi tumko jana padega. Tum yahan se chali jao ( now you will have to leave. Why don't you go away?)', I was shocked and retorted, I shall not leave this house. But Madhubala didn't stop there, she quickly responded, 'Okay, but when Kishore tells you then you will have to go.'I couldn't take it anymore. I am a human being too.

I wanted to stay because I knew that would make Kishore the happiest man." Contrary to what people think, the singer had left no property or big moolah on Rumas name but she is not complaining. " Kishore may not have left any property or bank balance on my name, but whatever I need is fulfilled by my son Amit. He pays for all my medicine bills, food, lodging and everything that is required for an old lady." Incidentally, Ruma bears no such hard feelings for Leena Chandavarkar.

And it is evident when she says, " Look at the sari that I am wearing today. It is Leenas. She is a very good soul. Now that I have shifted here, she is the one taking care of my meals, clothing and everything else I would need. We often spend our leisure time refreshing our old memories.

Trust me its a laugh riot.

Kishore was a man with a big tender heart. He would love to distribute whatever he could to the needy." Talking about the big birthday present, Ruma reveals, " It was the launch of our website, where all of Kishores, Amits and Sumeets songs will be uploaded for listeners. I feel like the most privileged woman on earth. God has bestowed this opportunity in a well planned manner. As Kishores first wife, I couldn't have asked for anything more."

Live Program in Calcutta Celebrates Sudhin Dasgupta and Salil Chowdhury

Amit Fan Club has organized many memorable musical evenings in the past, but those musical evenings had been related to R.D.Burman and Kishore Kumar. For the first time they organized a musical programme called ‘MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THESE” featuring umpteen gems of two musical geniuses Sudhin Dasgupta and Salil Chowdhury which were performed by various singers or musicians who had been associated with the two geniuses at Uttam Mancha recently. The programme started with a performance by the Calcutta Youth Choir who performed three numbers composed by Sudhin Dasgupta and then 3 numbers by Salil Chowdhury.This was the pattern being followed for the rest of the evening by singers like Saikat Mitra, Antara Chowdhury and others. Some musicians like Bhanu Gupta, Soumitra Chatterjee, Tapas Bhowmick and Rocket Mondol who had been associated with the two geniuses performed a fewnumbers on their own as well as accompanying the other artistes.

source : http://www.washingtonbanglaradio.com/content/32142711-memories-are-made-these-live-program-calcutta-celebrates-sudhin-dasgupta-and-salil-

Rabindranath Tagore Center, Kolkata

Calcutta Youth Choir performing in Rabindranath Tagore Center, Kolkata

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Calcutta Youth Choir LIVE performance on 13th November 2010

Jagatdhatri Puja Milani Shangha 2010
A tribute to Salil Chowdhury by Calcutta Youth Choir under direction of Ruma Guha Thakurta
Purano Din Purano Mon

Ruma Guha Thakurta personally was not available in this show due to unavoidable circumstance.