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Celebrate India 2006 the Tulika diary of music |
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Is it music that makes Indians among the happiest people in the world? As the hero of an old Hindi film says, Geet gaata hoon main, gungunaata hoon main, maine hasne ka vaada kiya thha – I sing, I hum, because I promised to always keep smiling . . . Music lifts the heart, rejuvenates the soul, soothes the spirit. It flows through life in India, in villages, on the streets or in plush city halls, seeping through boundaries of genre, geography and hierarchy. Today, swept along on an unstoppable tide of technology, with podcasting as zeitgeistic mantra, music has been revolutionised like never before. A press of a button and any music is accessible to anyone, anywhere. At this time, Celebrate India 2006: The Tulika Diary of Music pauses to look through its history, trends and impact, picking out interesting aspects of the different kinds of music found in this wonderful collage of a country. Folk, festival, ritual, classical, popular, film, fusion . each month has a focus. Also running through the diary are dramatic visuals of musical instruments of India, some no longer used and some, who knows, that may not be in use much longer. The diary continues Celebrate India’s convenient format of a week to a doublespread. The snippets, the colours, the pictures and the attractive design all come together to match the vibrancy of India’s music. |
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