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Patriotism should be like new love!

Prashant Jain
Sep 1, 2013

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Time and Again, I keep growing old to a Mohammad Rafi on languid afternoons. People make comment on how things aren’t the way they were before: that musical quality has changed. They opine that the era of great music has faded. It seems to be only realized in the times when you could hear...

Infant’s Rhyme To Patriot’s Chant

Prashant Jain
Aug 23, 2013

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There is this very fine line which you have to jump across when you become an adolescent from a child. Very subtle changes indicate the arrival of maturity, the physical changes more evident than the mental ones. There’s this teenager, who is listening to music in a bus while she stares out of the...

The Mystifying Powers of Music

Prashant Jain
Jun 30, 2013

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“Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music. ” – Jimi Hendrix A musical note is a solitary messenger, putting across multifarious emotions in ways beyond one’s imagination. Furthermore, a train of such vivacious notes would definitely create wonders. The general situation...

The Imperfect Patriot

Prashant Jain
May 31, 2013

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I am your traditional commentator. A self-styled patriot who writes her Hindi name in Roman script everywhere, I had the privilege to be born into an upper-middle class family, the class often touted as the harbinger of positive change in the Indian society. Also a student of an institute which is said to have...

Lending an Ear or Three

Lakshmi Bharadwaj
May 10, 2012

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On the scale of fairly ambiguous to absolutely insanely nameless, there are a range of feelings that words do not graze. This is the realm that music often wanders to; realizing for us the absolute beauty there is to music as a medium. Music is the minister of this spectrum of the unknown, and...

Miscellany

Lakshmi Bharadwaj
Mar 11, 2012

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The hand that envisions creative electric music might not quite be aware of the singularly beautiful notes of a Veena. On the contrary, it might hold the Veena in the greatest of regard and respect, emulating a timeless, classic austerity. If variety were a song, the instruments would be the very notes. Because there...

Submissions till 15th April 2012

Kritin Joshi
Feb 22, 2012

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[frame align=”left”][/frame] The organizing committee is proud to announce more than 180 registrations for Desh Raag! Entries have started pouring in, and it seems the competition will be really tough! The submission of entries and registrations, both will end on 15th April 2012. We urge all our registered members to submit their entries as...

Beginnings

Lakshmi Bharadwaj
Jan 27, 2012

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Desh Raag came into existence as more than an idea, it was the brilliant innovation that will culminate an intense patriotic fervor with a musical awakening. Such things happen to every one of us, our stories are fine tuned instruments, if we lend them voice as music—they become our souls. Embracing our inner musician...

More than 180 registrations for Desh Raag

admin
Jan 14, 2012

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[frame align=”left”][/frame]It is our pleasure to let you know that now there are more than 180 individual artists and bands registered with Deshraag. Do not wait for the last minute, please register now and start composing your original music for this competition. Registrations will close on April 15th, 2012.