![]() He was Suman Chatterjee then,a bearded,balding man in his 40s,in jeans and a shirt,guitar strapped on his shoulder,the harmonica hanging from his neck and the keyboard in front of him,playing,singing and performingone man against the darkness of the stage,changing forever the tradition of Bangla Adhunik Gaan (Bengali modern music),at the time,anything but modern and stuck in an awful rut. But it drove the fear out of me, he says thoughtfully.Īnyone who saw Suman perform on stage in the early 1990s had never seen or heard anything like that before. I pissed six times in my pants,so did my friend. As part of the training,Suman and another journalist were asked to cross a field riddled with mines. Unlike in a war,a journalist has to be trained to survive a combat zone where guerrilla warfare is on because you dont know who your enemy is or your friend, he says with a puff on his cigarette. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Sandinista Liberation Front had just overthrown the dictatorship in the Central American country and Suman was among the handful of journalists in the combat zone. But the eyes look steadily at you and the voice is still rich with vigour as he takes you back to that time in 1985,when as a broadcast journalist in America,he travelled to Nicaragua to see what revolution looked like. At 61,his frame is a little bent with age,his hand trembles as he lifts the cellphone to his ears.
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