After the morning ablutions, booted my computer and understood the
reason for my melancholy immediately. My friend Rohan Joshi from Bangalore had sent some
bad news -- "Manna Dey no more".
I immediately rushed to the T V with the forlorn hope that the
news may be false. But this rarely happens. The News channel confirmed the
news.
The mind went into a turmoil. All the images of this gentleman of
gentlemen flashed through the mind.
Manna Dey aka Prabodhchandra Dey, who made his début as a playback
singer in 'Tamanna' in 1942, was a worthy nephew of a great singer Kishen
Chandra Dey (more popularly known as K C Dey).