Guwahati, Sept. 20 -- Rod. rod aji keni pau. Rod. rod aji keni sau

On September 19, 2025, Assam lost Zubeen Garg, who was not only a name but a raw emotion for millions of fans across Assam.

Being a Bengali born in Assam, I was introduced to Zubeen da during my teenage days in the 1990s and fell instantly in love with his voice. It touched my heart in a way no one has ever touched it.

As a teenager, when I would just take his cassettes and play them on our tape recorder and sing his songs aloud at home, my mother would think that her son had gone crazy. But slowly, she also started humming his numbers, be it 'Pakhi pakhi ei mon.', 'Unmmona', 'Sabda', 'Kokaal Khamusiya' and many more.

My mother started loving him so much even though sh...