Prabhat Samgiita: Difference between revisions

P. R. Sarkar composed the first prabhat samgiit ''Bandhu he niye calo'' on 14 September 1982<ref name=Vol1 /> at [[Deoghar]], [[India]].<ref name=Homage /> He continued composing songs until his death on 21 October 1990.<ref name="Songs of a new dawn" /> During that eight years, he composed a total of 5,018 prabhat samgiits,<ref name=Ghista>{{cite book|last=Ghista|first=Garda|title=The Gujarat Genocide: A Case Study in Fundamentalist Cleansing|year=30/11/2006|publisher=AuthorHouse|location=[[Italy]]|isbn=9781425944537|pages=174|url=http://books.google.co.il/books?id=T-CazvdstPcC&pg=PA174&redir_esc=y}}</ref> including the lyrics and the tunes.<ref name=AN /><ref name="Statesman">{{cite news|url=http://www.thestatesman.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&show=archive&id=385734&catid=47&year=2011&month=10&day=7|title=Driven by devotion - Meena Banerjee was mesmerised by a few pleasant surprises|date=07/10/2011|publisher=[[The Statesman]]|accessdate=6 February 2013}}</ref><ref name="Jha">{{cite web|url=http://www.docstoc.com/docs/104328504/Shri-Shri-Anandamurti-Ujjawala-jha|title=Shri Shri Anandamurti: A 20th Century Indian Philosopher|last=Jha|first=Ujjawala|date=20/11/2011|publisher=Centre of Advanced Study in Sanskrit, [[University of Pune]]|pages=2|accessdate=1 February 2013|location=[[Pune]], [[India]]}}</ref> The last prabhat samgiit, ''Ámrá gaŕe nova gurukul'', was composed on 20 October 1990, one day before his death<ref name="Vol10">{{cite book|last=Sarkár|first=Shrii Prabhát Raiṋjan|title=Prabhát Sauṋgiit (Tenth Volume)|publisher=Ananda Marga Publications|location=Kolkata, India|date=30/04/2003|edition=Second Edition|pages=xxviii|isbn=81-7252-214-2|accessdate=13/02/2013|language=Bengali}}</ref>

Sarkar created the [[Ananda Marga]] organization in 1955 and by 1973 Ananda Marga Publications was established to translate and distribute his work as well as works relating to Sarkar.  The multivolume English/Bengali edition was published in 1993 and two smaller volumes of selected works in English followed.  Another Ananda Marga-affiliated group, the Renaissance Artists and Writers Association (RAWA), has sponsored several performances and recordings of selected songs.  These performances have featured artists such as [[Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande]], [[Rashid Khan]], [[Kavita Krishnamurthy]], [[Manoj Kumar]], [[Vithal Rao]], [[Shruti Sadolikar]], [[Haimanti Sukla]] and [[Archana Udupa]].{{citation needed |date=February 2013}}