An exhilarating eveningon 19th November, 2018, with Kalu ram Bamaniya and Kabir bhajans. The Sarojini Naidu School in our University is celebrating thirty years of its existence and it ushered this through an evening of Kabir bhajans, under the title, Kahat Kabir, sung by a folk artist Kalu ram Bamaniya from the Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh. Kalu ram has a beautiful style of singing as well as explaining the padas and dohas of the Bhakti Saint poets and placing them in the present day. He gave a large variety of examples from our day to day life and explained them in the context of Kabir. As, a historian and an Indian, I feel very happy for this syncretic tradition of India. That this tradition of a 15th Century poet is so relevant even today, six hundred years after his death is indeed heart warming and that many young people can relate to it even today is amazing. . The highlights of the evening were his rendering of Man laga fakiri Mai, man maast Hua, gadi dhire se hanko and jhini jhini chadar. He also sang a Mira Bhajan. I really want to salute our students who enjoyed the evening and were in full spirits ad so well behaved, that even Kalu ram remarked that here the audience is excellent for they understand and know these verses. and are enjoying them. Indeed a great cultural evening and the songs of Kabir make so much sense in today's world where there is so much strife, antagonism, divisions and hatred. Thanks a lot Sarojini Naidu School for giving us such a beautiful evening and thanks to Prof. Tirumali, Vinod and Kanchan K. Malik from the School.
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