UDLCO CRH: Rabindranath's Brahma Sangeet, raag lacchasaag bilaval (Nishasaag) and the Indian national army

Summary:

The conversation revolves around Rabindranath Tagore's Brahma Sangeet, specifically "Bohe Nirontoro" and "Jan Gan Man Adhinayak Jai He." The discussion touches on the song's history, meaning, and significance, as well as its connection to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and the Indian National Army. The conversation also mentions the controversy surrounding the song's proposal as India's national anthem.

Keywords:

1. Brahma Sangeet

2. Rabindranath Tagore

3. Indian National Army

4. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

5. National Anthem

6. Cultural Significance

7. Historical Context

CRH: https://medicinedepartment.blogspot.com/2024/10/critical-realist-pedagogy-and-theatre.html?m=1

https://medicinedepartment.blogspot.com/2024/11/udlco-large-group-interactive-lecture.html?m=1

-UDLCO glossary:https://userdrivenhealthcare.blogspot.com/2023/11/glossary-of-user-driven-healthcare.html?m=1

Conversational Transcripts:

[25/01, 11:49]sb: শুভ জন্মদিন শ। খুব ভালো থাকিস। মন খুলে গান গেয়ে বউ কে শোনা।

[25/01, 12:11]sg: শুধু  বউ কে 

শোনাবে?? 🤔 আমরা বাদ?

[25/01, 12:23]sb: আজ বউ। পরে আমরা

[25/01, 12:26]kd: সারা বছর তো বউ-এর কথাই শোনে - আজ না হয় বউকে একটু গান শোনানোর সুযোগ পাবে😁

[25/01, 20:18] rb : Amrao ore gaan shunte pari ekhane 👇

https://youtu.be/yaMW4boZJSI?feature=shared

Happy Birthday @⁨sd🙂🙏

[25/01, 20:28]km: Many happy returns of the day S !🎂🎉💐💖💖

[25/01, 20:30]km: Excellent ! Ki shundor gan

[25/01, 21:14]rb: "Taal: Jhaptaal

Raag: Lachhasaar-Bilabal

Anga: Dhrupad

Written on: Autumn 1897

Swarabitan: 22

Notation by: Kangalicharan Sen

Bhanga Gaan: Derived from a Hindi song Dusaha Dokh-dukh Dalani - Nishasag, Jhaptaal

Notes: This song finds a reference in his book 'Purushottam Rabindranath' by Amal Home where he describes his experience of listening to Rabindranath's own voice at a marriage ceremony. It was the marriage of Nolini, daughter of Aanandamohan Basu and niece of Jagadishchandra Basu with Prof Nagendrachandra Nag. Rabindranath himself played an organ while singing a newly composed song - Bohe nirantara ananta aanondodhaara ... 

https://www.geetabitan.com/lyrics/B/bahe-nirantor-lyric.html#google_vignette

[25/01, 22:48] km : This is the Doha from Tulsidasji

[25/01, 22:48]km: दुसह दोष-दुख, दलनि, करु देवि दाया.

विश्व-मूलाऽसि, जन-सानुकूलाऽसि, कर शूलधारिणि महामूलमाया ||१ ||

तडित गर्भाङ्ग सर्वाङ्ग सुन्दर लसत, दिव्य पट भव्य भूषण विराजैं.

बालमृग-मंजु खंजन-विलोचनि, चन्द्रवदनि लखि कोटि रतिमार लाजैं ||२ ||

[25/01, 22:54]rb: This one 👇

https://youtu.be/HiH2WQVlz8I?feature=shared

[25/01, 22:57]km: Yes a modern version I think 

Quite pop like

[25/01, 22:58] km : I don’t think Tagore ‘s tune was based on this.

I don’t know what Raga Nishashag is . Never heard of it , have you ?

[25/01, 22:57] km: I am always surprised when i find that Tagore despite his Brahmo faith and background, often found inspiration from the so called forms of Hindu Gods and Goddesses .  This  song bohe nirontoro ( a very classic brahmosangeet  in word and structure ) is a good example of that  . He also has many songs based on the Eternal Brahmo  (without any form ) .

[25/01, 22:59] km: But there is one version sung by Mohan Singh Khangura , disciple of Santidev Ghosh of Shantiniketan so I think that may be the closest to the song you posted ( and S our batch mate sang)

[25/01, 23:01] km: https://open.spotify.com/track/6vJH1YozunXlmIMSeQ6mWT?si=THEU5iaCShiycoUchntiww&context=spotify%3Asearch%3Amohan%2Bsingh

[25/01, 23:01] rb: I like his (and his son's) songs a lot!

[25/01, 23:02] km: Yes ,  they are fantastic but sadly Vikram Khangura passed away very young so not much survives

[25/01, 23:04] rb: Yes

[25/01, 23:07] km: Today is actually মাঘোৎসব । a very good day to be listening/ singing / enjoying  Brahmo sangeet .

[25/01, 23:17]rb: Yes it was fantastic!

[25/01, 23:21] rb : Also available on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/vh1eduoEuKE?feature=shared

[25/01, 23:24] km: Magical ! Father ( Mohan Singh ji ) singing here

[25/01, 23:30] rb: Yes

[25/01, 22:58] km : 

I don’t know what Raga Nishashag is . Never heard of it , have you ?

[26/01, 08:53] rb: I guess it's the same as Lacchasaag (aka nishasaag?) bilaval.

Check out this beautiful demo of the bilaval and goud ang that make up this raag along with shades of jhinjhoti and khamaj

https://youtu.be/Ju0A8auQAkA?feature=shared

[26/01, 03:48] SL: On the occasion of the 128th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, please listen to   "Shubh Sukh Chain Ki Barkha Barse" from the film "Gumnaami" (Bangla) (2019).

The national anthem of the Azad Hind Fauj (Indian National Army) was " Shubh Sukh Chain " (शुभ सुख चैन), which translates to "Auspicious Happiness". The song was based on Rabindranath Tagore's Bengali poem Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata ("The Destiny of India"). 

*How was the song created?*

The song was composed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Mujtaba Husain, and Aabid Hasan Safrani. It was created in 1943 when Bose moved from Germany to Southeast Asia.

After the establishment of the provisional Government in exile of INA in 1943, Netaji decided to have a National Anthem for his Government. He himself selected Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore’s poem "Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata" and asked Mumtaz Hussain and Colonel Abid Hussain Saffarani of INA to translate it into Hindustani so that it becomes easy to understand the meaning to all. He selected Captain Ram Singh Thakur to composed in the martial music so that the listeners would be awaken. It is significant to note that on the day of India’s independence on August 15, 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled the Tricolour on the ramparts of the Red Fort after which Captain Ram Singh Thakur of INA conducted the orchestra with his musicians, playing the tune of the National Anthem of INA.

In the film, this song, sung by Babul Supriyo, appears towards the end of the film, incorporating the flashback of what has happened in the life of Netaji from 1940-45 and the efforts made by the journalist to unlock the mystery of Netaji’s death. The credit title of the film gives credit to Mumtaz Hussain and Colonel Abid Hussain Saffarani as lyricists and the music to Captain Ram Singh Thakur. However, I feel that Rabindranath Tagore should also get the credit since the tune was originally composed by him for “Jan Gan Man Adhinayak Jai He”. The audio clip of the song has one extra stanza.

It is the song which reminds us with moist eyes, the fond memory of Netaji and of his sacrifice for the freedom of the motherland. India Celebrates Parakram Diwas 2025 to honour the legacy of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on the occasion of his 128th Birth anniversary today.

👇👇👇

[26/01, 10:43] rb: Rabindranath's version was first sung on 28th December, 1911 at Calcutta.

Neither the manuscript of this song has been found nor the date and time of composition of this song have been discovered. 

On 27th December this song was sung by a chorus on the occasion of 26th Annual Conferrence of the Indian National Congress held between 26th and 28th December 1911 at Calcutta. Dinendrnath Tagore had been the leader of the rehearsal that was held at the residence of Dr.Nilratan Sarkar on Harrison road. 

The news along with the translation of the song was published on the next day by The Bengali, the daily. 

On the Magh, 1318B edition of Tatwabodhini magazine the song was first published with a heading Brahma-sangeet. 

The same year the song was sung as Brahma-sangeet in the Maghotsava celebration.

Here's an interesting Brahma Sangeet written by Rabindranath borrowed from Tulsidas's Ramcharit Manas in the same raag bilaval aka shankarabharanam aka C Major also appears appears on 64 pages from page numbers 795 to 859 in Guru Granth Sahib.

This was sung informally by my friend near a flowing river serving as background music 👇

https://youtu.be/yaMW4boZJSI?feature=shared

A controversy had erupted when the first stanza of Rabindranath's Bharat Bhagya Vidhata poem was proposed as the National Anthem of the independent India when a few people had claimed that the song was written to commemorate arrival of the British King, George 

V. Pulinbihari Sen, an ex-student of the VisvaBharati University had written a letter to Rabindranath asking him to explain the objective of the song. Rabindranath had replied him on 20th November, 1937 –

… Preparations were on for the reception of the British King, George V on his arrival to India that year. One of my friends, well-positioned in the British Government, had come to me with a special request to compose a song in salutation of the British Emperor. I was very much surprised and infuriated as well. I have hailed for Him who governs the destiny of India in my song Janaganamana Adhinayaka in a forceful reaction to that request; the eternal Charioteer for travelers pursuing crests and troughs of the jagged route, He who is the perpetual reconnoiter of the people, the timeless charioteer of the human fortune can never be any George, whether fifth or sixth; my friend, however faithful to the British he might be, too could quite feel that. …

Rabindranath had used it in various occasions, although the song had been at the center of confusion for a short period of time. In 1919 he had been to Madanapalli in South India where a meeting was organised to pay tribute to him by James H.Cousins, Principal of the Theosophical College and his friend. In this meeting Rabindranath had sung this song and introduced it as ‘The Morning Song of India’. The College Management had been fascinated by the composition and its inherent meaning. It was selected as a prayer song for daily assembly in the College.

https://www.geetabitan.com/lyrics/J/janoganomano-adhinayaka-lyric.html

[26/01, 10:49] rb: 👆this song is not sung by Babul Supriyo

This one is 👇

https://youtu.be/RL7haZUtg6k?feature=shared

Here's a thematic analysis, and learning insights from the conversational transcripts:

Meta AI thematic Analysis

_Codes_

1. Brahma Sangeet

2. Rabindranath Tagore

3. Indian National Army

4. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

5. National Anthem

6. Cultural Significance

7. Historical Context

_Themes_

1. _Cultural Significance of Brahma Sangeet_: The conversation highlights the importance of Brahma Sangeet in Indian culture and its connection to Rabindranath Tagore.

2. _Historical Context of Indian Nationalism_: The discussion provides insight into India's struggle for independence, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's role, and the significance of the Indian National Army.

3. _Controversy and Misconceptions_: The conversation addresses the controversy surrounding "Jan Gan Man Adhinayak Jai He" and clarifies misconceptions about its origins and meaning.

Learning Insights

1. _Appreciation for Indian Cultural Heritage_: The conversation promotes appreciation for Indian cultural heritage, particularly Brahma Sangeet and its significance in Indian history.

2. _Importance of Historical Context_: The discussion emphasizes the importance of understanding historical context when interpreting cultural artifacts and national symbols.

3. _Critical Thinking and Clarification of Misconceptions_: The conversation encourages critical thinking and clarification of misconceptions, promoting a nuanced understanding of complex historical and cultural issues.

Dawn of Emceeai" 2

Date: Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:41 AM
Subject: Sneak preview into another novel under construction: "Dawn of Emceeai" 2
To: caregiver7careseeker@gmail.com

Author: Rush-man Shall-die 

Do let me have your feedback.

 

In my bid toward exposing the problems with the current Indian Health care system ( which I am a part of) as far as the existing corruption in health care education and health services delivery are concerned I thought just talking about the petty (although hefty in terms of money) corruption that exists in local bodies like MCI ( Medical Council of India) may be too commonplace and boring.

 

This is the reason I thought I would let it ride piggy back on the shoulders of a larger story of Indian Politics waiting to be told ( It was as if I was walking through a forest and suddenly this story which was suspended like betal from a tree was imploring me to relate it).

 

This is very unlike my previous novel on the science, philosophy and fantasy of medicine in the sense that this one is mostly to do with a fantasy of political science ( and very little medicine and even little about the unsung grassroots people who I personally care to read more about, although I may incorporate them if this project does take off from a spring board).

 

All information in this account is true and any relation that you may find with anything even remotely fictional is a fragment of your imagination.

 

( not my original but I am proud to say that I got it from a blog by someone who was a student and now a good friend of mine)

 

The narrative is set in a hypothetical country called Emceeai which exists somewhere in Oceania, primarily settled by US immigrants who went Westward through Alaska after global warming made it possible for them to just wade across the continents ( I shall leave the interesting details for the final book/film).

 

In the opening scene the camera/audience/reader follows a person called Dayton Kasai who is holidaying in a cruise ship over the river Rhine in Basel where he has just flown in from Copenhagen.

 

He is with a blond lady called Carla who promises to arrange for him to meet a mysterious gentleman called Gurdjief Bondi (whose photograph bears a striking resemblance to an erstwhile prime minister from his country Emceeai).

 

Carla is unable to keep her promise but Dayton after a lot of wait decides to complete the job for which he had come all the way from Emceeai to Copenhagen and then Basel. He checks into a swiss bank, accesses his account, takes a look at all the gold in his vault and comes back.

 

Scene 2 shows a flash back into Dayton's past as the country's news headlines read: President of  the National Health Council NHC pressed for charges of corruption...caught red handed in a sting operation in Bambandra medical college accepting bribes for conferring recognition by the NHC (that is so very mandatory in Emceeai for medical colleges to keep functioning).

 

Scene 3 shows a meeting between Dayton and Petunia Bondi who is the leader of the ruling party (and the inheritor of the Bondi family's political legacy after her husband Gurdjief was killed in a terrorist attack) in the democracy of Emceeai where she shouts at him initially with all fury and then cowers down when he surprises her with a sneer and a threat (which is unheard by the audience)

 

Scene 4 Dayton's unmitigated growth inspite of having been publicly stripped of his powers continue and his henchmen ( one of who is Dev Andhar Mishra with a dark past which is related in flashback) keep raiding different colleges in the guise of inspection and return with tons of booty that Dayton goes to deposit in his locker in Basel, Switzerland.

 

Scene 5 Enter the hero, Rushman Shalldie,( a very dark complexioned man, otherwise resembling a cross between Salman Rushdie and Sharukh Khan),

who is hired by a consortium of all the wronged colleges to probe deeper into Dayton's past (and the secret of his unique power that allows him to get away with blatant disregard for the law of the land).

Scene 5 Enter the hero, Rushman Shalldie,( a very dark complexioned man, otherwise resembling a cross between Salman Rushdie and Sharukh Khan),

who is hired by a consortium of all the wronged colleges to probe deeper into Dayton's past (and the secret of his unique power that allows him to get away with blatant disregard for the law of the land).

 

Scene 6 Rushman seduces Carla in the usual predictable James Bond style (which gets translated into an interesting mish mash of Bollywood meets Hollywood as its being filmed by Indians, who unlike Shekhar Kapoor possess a more patriotic cultural competence) and gets her to reveal the swiss bank codes of Dayton and after downloading his account details, is surprised that Dayton has more money than can be accounted for (by all the money he may have earned through his National health council inspections etc).

 

 

Rushman starts following Dayton the next time he is in Basel and overhears Dayton repeating his request to Carla ( to let him meet Gurdjief).

 

He is amazed to find that Gurdjief resembles one of the most venerated politicians of Emceeai who was actually believed killed in a terrorist encounter around 10 years back. He starts following Petunia Bondi and soon enough finds her disappear for a few days on a trip to Italy along with her son and ends up following them all the way to Basel. Rushman still maintains good contact with Carla (pun unintended) and is witness to a family reunion which he gathers is an annual secret affair unseen to this day even by the likes of Dayton (Gurdjief's daughter Cranka and her husband Norbert are actually inconspicous in their absence).

 

In between we have the usual Bollywood sidekicks like Tinderoook Can dancing around the trees with Carla (of all people!) but then it again goes to reveal that Tinderook (the reigning king of the Emceeai film industry) is actually hands in glove with the entire Bondi family in this secret ( and although Gurdjief doesn't meet Dayton he does chill out often with Tinderook and his family who are also always glad to be around when Petunia Bondi makes her annual trips and Carla is actually part of Tinderooks extended family).

 

Scene 7 The dawn of Emceeai: A million people of this nation march away from the camera shouting slogans against NCH, demanding their right to health education and health care and a speedy institution of another medical body renamed medical council of India MCI ( the abbreviation bears a striking resemblance with the name of their country) purported to arise from the ashes of NCH. The camera then zooms into Dayton's sneering face which is snug in the comfort of all the excess money in his bank account ( garnered from a much publicised Fobors gun deal that Gurdjief had unwittingly got into and was at the moment living off the interest of it that Dayton transferred regularly every month).

 

Why did Gurdjief chose the life he lived in Basel? This is the book's/movie's closely guarded secret ( and I can assure you this is what will save me from spending the rest of my life in an Indian prison if it is ever published/filmed).

 

Also I hope to be saved by this quote from Novelist Haruki:

 

The lies of novelists differ from others, however, in that no one criticises the novelist as immoral for telling lies. Indeed, the bigger and better his lies and the more ingeniously he creates them, the more he is likely to be praised by the public and the critics. Why should that be?

My answer would be this: that by telling skillful lies — which is to say, by making up fictions that appear to be true — the novelist can bring a truth out to a new location and shine a new light on it. In most cases, it is virtually impossible to grasp a truth in its original form and depict it accurately. This is why we try to grab its tail by luring the truth from its hiding place, transferring it to a fictional location, and replacing it with a fictional form. In order to accomplish this, however, we first have to clarify where the truth lies within us. This is an important qualification for making up good lies.

An audio tape recorded song from 30 years back!

 Attached here:

Haamar naam dulung meye

Tumar naam ki?

UDLCO : Setting the stage of angst for the medical tricorder

Summary :

The conversation begins with the current nuanced violence against doctors narrative and is thwarted by a counter narrative from an evolutionary perspective spiced with the usual poetic licence and cynical sarcasm which generates an SOS call to housekeeping! 

Keyword glossary : http://userdrivenhealthcare.blogspot.com/2023/11/glossary-of-user-driven-healthcare.html?m=1

UDLCO transcripts with PII removed (also for collective consensus as to global shareability and utility  won't be shared outside this group unless consent-sused ) :

[5/6, 11:57 PM] +1: Hello everyone.. This is.. Thank you ... for a warm introduction and ... for a warm welcome.

I am a passionate advocate of managing one’s health to improve outcomes especially for chronic illnesses. I have focused this energy into building applications that utilize technology to improve self awareness . I look forward to working with this group to advance technology use in this area

[5/7, 8:04 AM] RN: *Sunday Story*

*A Good Doctor’s Daughter*

(A Doctor’s life experiences as narrated by Dr. Rajas Deshpande - Truth of  Doctors life.)

Long story short : Doctor father who had his heartful of patients and doctor daughter who performed the same duties elegantly but with a hollow heart due to nil emotional reciprocation of the doctor's calling by their patient clientele. 

[5/7, 8:05 AM] RN: For those vexed about suicides in medical n allied fields..points to ponder

[5/7, 8:11 AM] KH : There was this news item that I would be happy to share on this story.

There was a case in ... 2 yrs back where a big crowd had come down to fight against the doctor in his hospital where there was seemingly a reaction to a known drug given after IM injection. Now drug reactions are not uncommon and can occur anytime in anybody.

The conclusion of the observer was there were so many patients' relatives who had joined in to protest against the doctors running that hospital whose near and dear ones had got their lives saved in a critical condition few years back. The doctors who were facing the brunt of the mob violence were wondering as to what happened to the last 18 years of no of live that they had saved in that same community and how comes relatives who had walked out from clutches of death from that same hospital were part of the mob protest ?

[5/7, 8:16 AM] KH : We all who practice clinical medicine including myself who specializes in internal medicine and diabetes have seen a vast sea change in the attitude of society in the last 26 years of practice.

There is  a gradual decline in gratitude and respect in the community, tolerance thresholds are very low and google self trained patients are increasing who rather than discuss with rationale and try to be part of the team to treat the patient try to be egoistic  and abuse the medical practitioner at the drop of a hat.

The number of self trained quacks, no of alternative medicine practitioners self trained in allopathy and pseudo specialists  are increasing

[5/7, 8:30 AM] rb : 

No worries. This will evolve to AI guided DIY self care where all citizen astronauts can use their wearable mobile medical tricorder to zap at any health problems that could come their way. 😅

Is it Khosla's dream too?

[5/7, 8:42 AM] RN : With built in tracking by legal authorities to avert potential medicolegal cases or alert lawyers to potential cases..

The opportunities appear endless

[5/7, 8:42 AM] rb : Welcome. Would be looking forward to seeing online links to your workflows if shareable

[5/7, 8:43 AM] rb : Everything will become open access anyways after removing PII (personal identifying information) or PHI (personal health identifiers)

[5/7, 8:46 AM] rb: Anyone can clinically audit the data in real time be it potential lawyers, litigants, activists and jury! Only they wouldn't be able to identify the data to anyone in particular and the data would become part of a detailed general knowledge in healthcare!

[5/7, 8:48 AM]  RN : When data science will that maturity make,

Into that heaven..may my country awake

[5/7, 8:52 AM] rb: Not a piece of cake! 

It's just but one simple take 

On the entire country's wake 

As the issue is about 

a globally warming 

and fast drying data lake

[5/7, 9:02 AM] A : Incredible impromptu 

r Da 👍🏻

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