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<div class="section1"><div class="Normal">KOLKATA: When Udita Das hummed <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Rabindra sangeet </span>at home in the US, she was clueless as to whether she was following the keys properly. <br /><br />It is hard to find a good teacher in the US and even if she found one, she would have been unable to fit the lessons in her schedule.However, now she has a personal tutor, who is just a click away. <br /><br />Udita now sits at her computer, logs onto www.anandadhara.com and practices her singing. She sometimes emails her singing as an MP3 file to teachers in Kolkata and gets a feedback immediately.<br /><br />Not only Udita, twenty other Bengalis in the US right now are enjoying the efforts of a few Bengali music lovers in Kolkata, who have come together and formed a website "dedicated to music lovers all over the world." <br /><br /><br /></div> </div><div class="section2"><div class="Normal"><br />The fraternity is growing everyday, so much so that the initiators have already plans of launching sister sites, with tutorials on other forms of music like bhajans and western classical. The site has around 73 pupils now, 80 per cent of them are from the UK, Germany, Japan and the US. <br /><br />The site has a database of 150 songs, with new songs being added everyday. Along with the songs, there is a brief history of the songs with translations and summaries. "It is hard to sing a song properly unless one understands the underlying emotions," felt Abhijit Patronobis, who had conceptualised and developed the website, along with his NRI friends Kaustav Ghosh and Avi Basu. The site comes at Rs 800 per month for Indians and at $40 for non-residents.<br /><br />"Anandadhara functions as a virtual institution of Rabindra Sangeet for those who want to learn, along with encouraging those who sing Rabindra Sangeet just for pleasure and joy and do not want to enter the ambit of formal training," said Patronobis.<br /><br />Patronobis plans to approach the top 16 universities that teach Bengali in the US with their modules soon. He also plans approaching some universities in Bengal who had recently announced plans of introducing online <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Rabindra sangeet </span>tutorials for people residing abroad. "We already have the technology while they are yet to launch it." he said.<br /></div> </div>