This was a great phase for my poetry. Keertinath Kurtukoti, his exceptionally kind and erudite mentor then living and working in Baroda, he was able to do a rewrite that was acceptable to G. It was about East Bengali refugees who come to Calcutta after the partition. Earlier in Sangdil, , a Dilip Kumar—Madhubala starrer, a composer of genuine originality, Sajjad Hussain, had got Asha to sing a duet with Geeta Dutt, an unusual talent. He knew, perhaps because of his training in Mathematics how to clearly and logically.
nest...