Subsequently, arrest warrants were issued in his name, and he went underground in the Sunderbans, hiding in paddy fields and supported by local peasants. This led Chowdhury to become fully involved in the peasant movement, and he became a full-time member of IPTA and the Communist Party. The famine was man-made as local rice was instead directed to Britain's war effort overseas, leading to scarcity, aggravated by black marketeers and hoarders. In 1944, while studying for his MA, Chowdhury witnessed people dying on the streets of Calcutta, as 50 lakh Bengalis died during the famine. He got involved with them and began writing songs for the peasant movement. Chowdhury shifted to a village in 24 parganas to live with his maternal uncles, when he was witness to a big peasant uprising there in 1943. Chowdhury composed it in 1945 during the Indian National Army trials when the freedom fighters had returned from Andaman jail. the days of new judgement have come because people are now awake), set to a kirtan tune. His first popular song was ' Becharpoti tomar bichaar' (lit.

Once in college, he also began to compose tunes. He learnt to play the piano from his elder brother at the age of 6. Īs a teenager in school, Chowdhury already had an interest in music, and played the flute, harmonium and esraj.

He studied in Harinavi D.V.A.S High School and there after graduating from Bangabasi College, affiliated to the University of Calcutta in Kolkata, and during this period his political ideas were formulated along with a considerable maturity in his musical ideas. During the second world war Chowdhury got the opportunity to closely observe human sufferings, hunger and problem of the refugees. From an early age he listened to the Western Classical collection of his father. His father was reputed to stage plays with coolies and other low-paid workers of the tea-gardens. Salil's childhood was spent in the tea gardens region of Assam. Salil Chowdhury was born on 19 November 1925 in a village called Gazipur in South 24 Parganas, West Bengal. 1.1 Early influences – childhood and teenageĬareer Early influences – childhood and teenage.

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