Dakshinee

Dakshinee is one of the music academies in the city of Calcutta, now Kolkata. It plays an important role in encouraging and promoting primarily the Rabindrasangeet.

Suvo Guha Thakurta was a devotee of Rabindrasangeet. He wanted to spread it among Bengali masses which were then confined primarily to Santiniketan. On the advice of Shailaranjan Majumdar, he founded Dakshinee on 8 May 1948.

Dakshinee started with only 12 students and by 1955 it had 600 students. Between 1962 and 1972 the student strength was over 1500.

Since inception it had four functioning sections

In 2008 Dakshinee proposes to publish a special edition on the occasion of its Diamond Jubilee Celebrations.

This institute was earlier started at 132, Rashbehari Avenue. In 1955, it was moved to Dakshinee Bhawan, 1 Deshapriya Park (West) and has been there since then.

Although the institute professes to teach Rabindranath Tagore's ideals through his music, credible evidence strongly suggests that Dakshinee believes in instilling a sense of fear among the rank and file of its students, an idea that is wholly contrary to Tagore's own views on any kind of learning.

Dakshinee follows its own discrete notation, disregarding the notation accepted and printed by the bishwa-bharati.

Dakshinee also got itself mired in a recent controversy when a letter published in a widely read mainstream Kolkata newspaper alleged that the institute expelled one of its students, an eight-year-old girl, only for wearing a salwar-kameez (a dress widely used by Indian girls and women).

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