Timir Nandi

Timir Nandy started his career in 1969 on Bangladesh Television and radio. In 1971, he participated in the Bangladesh Liberation War as a freedom fighter. After Independence, he was admitted to Dhaka music college. In 1972, he formed a cultural organisation named Rajani along with some of his friends in Dhaka. During this period, he started composing music, with some of his composed tunes penned by his friends from Rajani. In BTV's serial Shonkito Podojatra, he composed a song titled "Badhon khule dilam" which became immensely popular at the time. ^[2]

In 1973, while studying in Dhaka, Nandy obtained a scholarship from the Soviet government to complete higher studies in Soviet Russia. He thus became the first ever Bangladeshi to complete higher musical studies in Europe. In the late 1970s, he returned to Bangladesh and took up music as a career. He earned a niche for himself through numerous hit songs in films, television, and radio. ^[1]

In 2009, Nandy published an album after a long hiatus to commemorate the 40th anniversary of his career. In 2019, he published another album called Meghla Duchokh to celebrate his career's 50th anniversary. ^[3] In 2020, he took the initiative to compose songs for the new generation's singers at the request of the regional director of Bangladesh Betar, Syed Mostafa Kamal. He has mainly worked on patriotic and modern songs. These songs have been penned by Rongu Shahabuddin, Md Rafiqul Hasan, Khokon Sirajul Islam, Ayet Hossain Ujjal and Salma Akter, and have been sung by vocalists Linu Billah, Mokhlesul Islam Nilu, Jinat Rehana, Tanveer Alam Sajeeb, Shahnaz Rahman Shikriti, Chhonda Chakraborty, Shorolipi, Sondipon, Ronti Das, Nishita Barua, Champa Banik, Shahina Haque, Himadri Biswas, Muhin, Priyanka Gope, Rajib, and Rebeka Sultana.^[2]

nandy joined St Francis Xavier's Greenherald International School as a music teacher in 1983, where he has been teaching since.^[4]