India, Sept. 26 -- On September 23, four days after Zubeen Garg's death in a careless water-sports accident in Singapore, his mortal remains were laid to rest. Four days and two post-mortems after, the people of Assam have not found closure. Yet, nobody is really looking for one. Because this is only another beginning, where the phenomenon called Zubeen da (as he was popularly known) is being immortalised.

Born in Tura, Meghalaya, in 1972 as Zubeen Borthakur, Zubeen Garg was distinctly more than just a popular singer, let alone just the singer of Ya Ali, the immensely popular song from the 2006 movie, Gangster. Now, many people outside Assam are surprised by two facts.

The first is that Zubeen sang more than 38,000 songs in about 40 lan...