[THREAD] Criticism of PSU institutions for lazy employees is totally valid. But some of these employees were never meant to be do-or-die corporate trailblazers. Take this LIC employee for example. In the Kolkata HO

He would generally arrive around noon with a large "tiffin carrier", which was the second most important reason for his colleagues to anxiously wait for him. The more important one would be a couple of songs he would sing during lunch hour

A few volumes would get filled if his episodes of run ins with musical authorities were to be chronicled. He wrote to Viswa Bharati Music Board asking them to show him where Rabindranath had dictated low/no music accompaniment to Rabindrasangeet

But he found like minded rebels like Ritwik Ghatak. Ghatak asked him to sing a song for a character Ghatak himself was playing. On the day of shooting our rebel singer declined saying he won't sing for a character who's a drunkard. "My student, Sushil Mallik, will sing"

After a lot of negotiations it was agreed that both - teacher & student - shall sing alternate verses in the same song. So was born a song, perhaps the only one in history, rendered by two voices for the same actor in the same song! "Keno cheye acho go Ma" in Jukti Tokko, Goppo.

He was born in Kishoreganj. He brought up in a mission by missionaries who lovingly called him after the King - "George". He died in penury. Remembering the King of Rabindrasangeet, Debabrata Biswas, on his birthday.