Is Rabindrasangeet out of sync with time? No way. Positioned vis-à-vis modern poetic sensibility, it can assume newer dimensions as a Third Eye presentation conceived by Joy Goswami (Rabindra Sadan, July 19) demonstrated. Buker Bhetar Brishti Parhe, as the presentation was called, set love as an objective co-relative to monsoon and modern times. Goswami chose the songs keeping the perennial themes of love and languish a la Meghdutam in mind. It was corroborated through the lines of Sankho Ghosh, Sakti Chattopadhyay, Sunil Gangopadhyay and Sambhu Bhattacharya which Raja Das recited in an emotional style. The pitch-dark ambience was heightened by the intuitive use of Kabir Suman’s Buker bhetar brishti parhe as a prologue. Uttiya Jana’s lighting scheme illuminating a city of umbrellas broke significantly from the convention.

However, the viraha that it attempted to portray would have remained unarticulated without the timbre of Srabani Sen. This vocalist has established a style of her own. The pensive aura has matured and the diction rounded. Furthermore, she has developed a depth of expression that can fulfil the cravings of an Aj jeman kare gaichhe akash or an Amaar nishith rater badaldhara. Enough to make the day for an ardent follower of Tagore’s music.