Guru, to perform in front of the music loving audience of Calcutta. This program became very popular and continued even after his death, till the mid nineties. Some of the most well known names in today’s Indian Classical music scene got an opportunity to perform on the big stage for the first time at the Rising Talents conference. In July 1944, Maitra married Lalita Chaudhuri, a lady from the "royal family" of Sushang. He died in 1981, aged 64, following an accident. Radhika Mohan Maitra invented the Mohan Veena in 1948 and in 1949 it was adapted at All India Radio by Thakur Jaidev Singh, the then chief producer of AIR. In this instrument the goat skin of the sarod is replaced by wood and the bridge of the sarod is replaced by the bridge of Surbahar. ￼ He performed several programs on Mohanveena in All India Radio which are available now in public domain and are the assets of AIR archives.https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/watch/He-who-came-first/article20849369.ece References Further reading External links Buddhadev Dasgupta speaks about his guru 1917 births 1981 deaths Bengali musicians Hindustani instrumentalists Musicians from Kolkata Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award Sarod players 20th-century Indian musicians Indian classical musicians of Bengal