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For people who know and remember Zubeen Garg as the singer who sang the hit song Ya Ali from Gangster, the state mourning in Assam following his untimely demise might be somewhat confusing.

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But for lakhs of Assamese who lost their beloved ‘Zubeen Da’, it is not just the loss of an artist, but one of the brightest lights in the socio-cultural realm of the state being suddenly extinguished.

A cultural icon

While Zubeen had recorded close to 40,000 songs in different languages, his legacy in Assamese music is unparalleled. When he crooned about romance, he made people fall in love; when he sang about speaking truth to power and n

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