Painter,
cartoonist, short story writer and filmmaker, Kolkata-based Kishore Chatterjee also nurtures a
passion for Western classical music. He has given talks and anchored programmes
on the subject since 1970, including a series on Wagner, Bach, Beethoven, the
opera and well-known music critics on All India Radio. While touring Europe on
a music scholarship, he also lectured on collecting records as a hobby on BBC.