New Delhi: The center decided to bring down one of Mahatma Gandhi’s favorite hymn “living with me” from this year’s retreat ceremony because playing more Indian songs would be right considering the ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’, who celebrated the 75th year of Indian independence, said the government’s source on Sunday.
“Living with me”, written by Anglican Scottish poet and Henry Hymnologist Henry Francis Lyte in 1847, has become a part of a retreat beating ceremony since 1950.
The Indian army announced on Saturday that it had been dropped from this year’s ceremony.
The sources say that the center wants to enter the maximum number of Indian songs and as a result, it was decided that only Indian songs would be played at this year’s ceremony on January 29.
This center in 2020 also planned to drop “stay with me.” From the ceremony but then maintain it after the commotion.
For this year’s ceremony, Hymn has been replaced by the popular Patriotic song “Ae Mere Watan to Logon”, written by Kavi Pradeep to commemorate the highest sacrifice made by Indian soldiers during the Indo-Chinese war in 1962.
“Ae bele Watan to the logo” is a tone India and salute all that laid their lives for the safety and integrity of the nation, the sources recorded.
Moving to bring down hymns from this year’s ceremony came a few days after the decision to combine Amar Jyoti Flame at the Indian gate with a lasting fire from the National War Memorial (NWM).
The merger took place during a short ceremony on Friday.
While some military officials defended the decision to combine the flame, several opposition parties, including Congress accused the BJP government center from “removing history”.
In addition, in addition, Congress on Saturday attacked the government for a decline in ‘obeying me’ from this year’s retreat ceremony, alleging that it was another effort to remove his inheritance.
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The government’s sources say on Sunday that iconic songs and lyrics for “Ae Mere Watan to Logon” have been connected much wider with Indians.
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Llantri from the Indian armed forces with “Ae Mere Watan to Logon” compared to “staying with me”, they mentioned.
Bear the derived tone from colonial past and including songs that have wider and deeper connections with Indian people is a sustainable exercise, which they mentioned.
“‘Living with me” is a popular military song but the lyrics are understood by some limited, they stated.
“Ae Mere Watan to Logon” is a famous song with a massive universal appeal and absorbs sense of sacrifice and respect for those who have made the highest sacrifices for India in the last 75 years, they noted.
For this reason in the 75th year of our independence, when we celebrate “Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav”, this center made this change in the closing performance of the beating of the 2022 retreat, which they recorded.
The brochure released by the Indian Army on Saturday enrolled 26 songs that will be played at this year’s ceremony at Vijay Chowk.
26 songs that will be played at this year’s ceremony include ‘Hey Kancha’, ‘Channa’, ‘Jai Janam Bhumi’, ‘Nritya Sarita’, ‘Vijay Josh’, ‘Banna’ Kesaran ‘,’ Veer Sichen ‘,’ Hathroi ‘, ‘Hathroi’, ‘Vijay Ghosh’, ‘Ladaakoo’, ‘Swadesh’, ‘Amar Chattan’, ‘Gold Arrow’ and ‘Swarn Jayanti’, according to the brochure.
‘Veer Sainik’, ‘Fanfare by Buglers,’ INS India ‘,’ Yashasvee ‘,’ Jai Bharati ‘,’ Kerala ‘,’ Siki A ‘,’ Hind Ki Sena ‘,’ Kadam Kadam Badhaye Ja ‘,’ Drummer Call ‘ Besides ‘Ae Berbe Watan to Logon’ is also part of the songs that will be played on January 29, the brochure noted.
The ceremony will see the participation of 44 bugler, 16 trumpeter and 75 drummer.
Teaming the retreat was a centuries military tradition originating from the days when the troops escaped from the battle at sunset, he said.
As soon as the bugler honed the retreat, the troops stopped fighting, screwing their arms and resigning from the battlefield, he added.
Beat the final marking retreat from the Republican celebration that was almost Sunday, which used to begin on January 24.
But this year, the celebration will begin on January 23, the birthday of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
Ahead of the birthday of 125 Bose, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that a large statue of the iconic Freedom Fighter will be installed at the Indian gate as a symbol of India’s “debt” to him.
Until the statue, made of granite, finished, the hologram statue will be in the same place, he said, adding that he would reveal the hologram statue on Sunday.
The government fell ‘stay with me’ from beating a retreat as a more appropriate Indian song: Source
