Academic record & distinction

MA , PhD: Rabindra Bharatai University, Kolkata.
UGC-NET in Music

Dr. Krishnendu Dutta is a Disciple of world famous Tabla wizard Pt. Shyamal Bose. Earlier he had started learning Tabla from Dr. Sandip Ball and thereafter from Prof. Sujit Banerjee. The period of his Tabla learning spanned around twenty six years. He was involved in a socio-musical documentation on the current musical scenario of Kolkata under a research project supported by Alexander Von Humboldt Stifung Bonn – Leipzig University (Germany). He has qualified UGC-NET in his first attempt. He obtained his Ph.D. in “research on notations in Indian percussion and their applications”. He also undertook intensive field work on documentation of obsolete musical instruments of Bengal, their performances, applications and making methods. Dr. Dutta involved himself in research on Esraj making, a project under the S. M. Tagore Centre of Research (SMTC-DRLOMI), Rabindra Bharati University. Besides these, he worked on the making of Shreekhol, a project under SMTC-DRLOMI, Rabindra Bharati University. He is actively engaged in writing music reviews of Indian Classical Music concerts. He covered many highly reputed musicians, as a free-lance Music Critic of “Saptahik Bartaman”, the most widely circulated Bengali Weekly. He started a journal in music titled ‘Ourbo’ at Bethuadahari that created immense interest in the readers and gradually increased its circulation. He is a recipient of the Ministry of Culture, GOI, Scholarship in the field of sociology of Culture (New Areas). He also worked on the traditional musical toys of Nadia District of West Bengal under SMTC-DRLOMI, Rabindra Bharati University. He prepared CBCS and NEP syllabus in Sikkim University for both Under-Graduate, Post-Graduate and Ph.D. He is a regular practitioner of Class conduct with OP and MMP. Eleven books authored by Dr. Dutta were published and two more are under preparation. He has more than 30 articles published in different nationally and internationally reputed journals. He also has, against his name, more than 100 popular articles on different aspects of music. Besides these he attended 20 or more national and international seminars and workshops as an invited speaker. He served Rabindra Bharati University as a guest lecturer for about ten years and presently is serving Sikkim University as an associate professor and as the first head of the department of Music. At present he is pursuing D.Lit. He has become an examiner for a number of times in Rabindra Bharati University, Visva Bharati University, Banaras Hindu University, Sikkim University. He was invited as subject expert for the recruitment interview at Tribhuvan University, Nepal. Also he was invited as guest speaker by Sangit Natak Academy, New Delhi. He delivered a speech as a special invited guest on the occasion of centenary year celebration of Dhaka University, Bangladesh. He is mainly a musicologist and researcher. He performed as an accompanist Tabla player for an audio cassette. He has a special interest in cultural Anthropology.