Mysuru: As the Cultural City garnered in to action to celebrate 75th Independence Day celebration with pomp and gaiety, an organisation planned to celebrate in unique way by singing national anthem in mother tongue Kannada.
Mysuru is known for its cultural richness irrespective of music, art, dance and heritage. As we all know, ‘JANA GANA MANA’ the National Anthem is penned in Bengali by Rabindranath Tagore. Among the five stanzas, we sing only one stanza of the anthem.
In respect to this, Geethanjali Centre for Performing Arts, Mysuru in collaboration with Pranavam Geetha Sangeeta, Mysuru will be presenting the Kannada Version of ‘JANA GANA MANA’ poem on August 14 at Rama Govinda Rangamandira at Ramakrishna Nagar in the City at 5.00 pm. The credit of Kannada version goes to Professor M. R. C. Nagaraj and Dr. Somanatha Datta who made it possible without distorting the original version.
JANA GANA MANA poem in Kannada will be released in a befitting manner with a concert of patriotic songs by renowned singers of Mysuru led by K. P. Revathi Sharma, Nithin Rajaram Shastry, Vijay Kumar S. and Geetalakshmi Keni. The whole team is now put together to commemorate Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav along with Mysureans.
