bijita devsharma another of the organisers may it always remain soon tuesday evening at vatika city manoj kumar mondal and his group presented confluence a musical journey an attempt to bring to light the influence of hindustani classical music on light classical mondal 84 is a classically trained vocalist who moved to gurgaon in 2004 he can count among his gurus his elder brother dilip kumar mondal from whom he received much of his formal training as well as rabindra sangeet singer debabrata biswas others who influenced him were siddheshwar mukherjee who he calls his bade guruji the illustrious pandit t l rana baul singer purna das baul and tabla legend karamatullah khan mondal has been singing for more than 40 years and began teaching way back in the 1960s he is now a guru to the young endeavouring to keep the flame of hindustani classical burning