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.
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History
Suvo Guha Thakurta was a devotee of Rabindrasangeet. He wanted to spread it among Bengali masses which was then confined primarily to Santiniketan. On the advice of Shailaranjan Majumdar, he founded Dakshinee on 8 May 1948.
Early days
Dakshinee started with only 12 students and by 1955 it had 600 students. Between 1962 and 1972 the student strength was over 1500.
Sections
Since inception it had four functioning sections
Activities
Publications
In 2008 Dakshinee proposes to publish a special edition on the occasion of its Diamond Jubilee Celebrations.
Location
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.
Affiliated institutes
Notable teachers
Prominent students
Controversies
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 notaion 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).