Dhaka, April 11 -- It is not easy to draw a portrait of Sanjida Khatun as she is a person with many identities and a lady with 10 hands, like the dashabhuja of Bangla myth. She is a singer par excellence; her renderings of Tagore songs are those of a maestro; she holds a special place along with Nilima Sen, Kanika Bandyopadhyay, Rajeshwari Dutta, and others. Usually, singers have no claim to scholarship on Tagore's songs, his music, literary works, or philosophy of life. From that perspective, Sanjida Khatun holds a special place among the Tagore scholars and her book Rabindra Sangiter Bhabasampad (The Richness of Tagore's Songs) has become a classic in its own right. She embodies the combination of a singer and a scholar, a rare feat tha...