Born in Konnagar, West Bengal, Dasgupta lived in Gaya, Dhaka and Calcutta. She was a cousin of Sahana Devi, Atulprasad Sen, Kanak Biswas (née Das).[1] Dasgupta taught music in Kamrunnesa Girls High School at Tikatuli, Dhaka in the late 1920s. She married Hirendra Chandra Dasgupta, a graduate engineer of Bengal Engineering College in the early 1930s and settled permanently in Calcutta. She was associated with the radio audition committee of All India Radio (AIR) in Calcutta.
Early work
With cousin Kanak Biswas, 1985
In 1932, three Indian recording companies were formed in Calcutta out of a nationalistic urge to compete with the British-owned Gramophone Company of India. One of these was Hindusthan Records. The owner C.C. Saha requested Rabindranath Tagore to record some songs and recitations. From those recordings were published the first record, H1. Atulprasad Sen recorded two songs which were published in the second record, H2. The third record, H3, had the songs "Jodi gokulachandra braje na elo" (kirtan) and "Pagla montare tui bandh" (Atulprasad) sung by Renuka Sengupta. Sales of this record reached an unprecedented high.[2]
Gulati, Leela (2005), "Matriliny within Patriliny", A Space of Her Own :Personal Narratives of Twelve Women, Sage Publications (CA), Renuka Dasgupta, who took Bengali listeners by storm with her one song *Jodi Gokulochandra Braje Na Elo* that is still remembered by generations even after a passage of eight decades. She shot into fame and became virtually a household name.
