Calcutta Youth Choir

Calcutta Youth Choir was founded in 1958 by Ruma Guha Thakurta with Salil Chowdhury and Satyajit Ray. Calcutta Youth Choir is known for their performance of folk and mass songs. Several years ago, the choir broke out with the song 'Aaj joto juddhabaaj'. Shibdas Bandopadhyay wrote the words and V. Balsara composed the music. The songs performed by the choir under the direction of Ruma Guha Thakurta widely include songs of Dwijendralal Ray, Rabindranath Tagore, Rajanikanta Sen, Nazrul Islam, Prem Dhawan, Sudhin Dasgupta, Salil Chowdhury and Sibdas Banerjee. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcutt...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)