HNLU Raipur may soon adopt a school-song, if its executive council approves of a version submitted for its consideration by the vice chancellor, who paid a professional studio to record it being sung by celebrity professional singers Shaan and Saadhna Sharma.
HNLU VC Prof Sukh Pal Singh told us that the song was being considered by the EC for the past one-and-a-half years, after the body rejected the original version of the song for being too long at five minutes and two seconds.
However, the EC had allowed a shorter version of about three minutes to be submitted again for deliberation. He said that the EC met once in every six months.
Singh, who is a former Benares Hindu University (BHU) professor said that the “school-geet” (geet, is Hindi for song) at BHU was the inspiration behind his move to work on a song for HNLU as well. The 2-minute long BHU anthem had been composed by BHU prof SP Singh, he told us.
For HNLU, the song was composed first by an agricultural science professor the VC was acquainted with, and then the VC and that professor modified the lyrics “in accordance with the objectives of HNLU”, he said. They asked Shaan and Sharma to record the song in a professional studio in Mumbai and the singers did not demand a fee for their services, Singh said.
HNLU rented the professional studio for the recording for around Rs 2 lakh, he said.
We have received the original 5:18m version of the song which runs into three stanzas of lyrics broken by five choruses.
Click the ‘play’ button below to listen:
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The chorus:
Hidayatullah rashtra vidhi vishwavidyalaya
Dharma sansthapna dhyaya pratibadhh sheesh naam hai [X2]
The first stanza which mentions that the law school teaches civil, economic and constitutional legal principles:
Samaajik, aarthik, rajnaitik nyaya, abhivyakti ki swatantrata
Praapt karaana har naagrik ko avsar aur pratishtha ki samta
Raashtra ki ekta kaayam rakhte ye lakshay vidhi ke tamaam hai
The second stanza glorifying Raipur and Chhatisgarh, followed by three more stanzas, is as follows:
Raipur Nagri hi Raajvanshon ki thi raj thali thi
Chhattisgarh tha dakshin koshan yahi sanskaardhaani thi
Bachpan ke sakshi ko Hidayatullah ki rajposhiyon par maan hai
GNLU Gandhinagar also has a school song which, sources told us, was composed by its alumni.
Photo by BhodiDG1983
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Administration seems to not give a **** about things that matter and pulls off stunts like this, VERY often.
- Misplaced priorities
- Waste of public money
- The concept of a "school geet" like this is a primary school
- Cringeworthy lyrics
- Terrible melody, fusing Doordarshan music with cheesy 1980s saxophone
- Lyrics in Hindi for an English-medium catering to many from non-Hindi states
- Students actually supporting this and down voting comments criticising HNLU
- Decline in quality of news on Legally India.
My point was that if you are educated (may be i am not) than instead of fighting on such trivial issues we should fight with corruption, poverty and various social evils.
Because India has so much diversity and there cant be agreement on one language.......so respect the diversity and use your EDUCATION for betterment of society.
PS. I am sorry if the words are harsh. I have no intention to offend you.
If you did not mean the original composition but something else, then your comment should have reflected that. It didn't. As a person with supposed legal education, you should be aware of the significance of words more than the lay person. Readers aren't supposed to go around trying to find what you might have meant in your mind.
Even what you clarified reveals your ignorance about the national anthem. Nobody sings it in their mother tongue inasmuch as I'm aware of, nor are they supposed to as per the law of the land. The pronunciation can of course have individual accents, but everyone is supposed to sing the original words only. Some of the words have obvious similarity with corresponding Hindi terms, since both have the same Sanskrit origin, but that doesn't make the song a Hindi one, regardless of whether it is being sung by someone whose mother tongue is Hindi or Malayalam.
About your subsequent advice on fight against corruption and social evils, etc., strangely enough, they were completely missing from your original comment. So it clearly appears to be a later addition on your part to divert attention from your original blatant mistake.
As for respect for diversity, I agree with that whole heartedly. Which is why a university having a bulk of students whose mother tongue isn't Hindi should actually think twice about having a song that is in Hindi (I strongly believe having a song at all, and getting it after that kind of expenditure, is a complete waste of students' and taxpayer's money and indicates the senility that afflicts the administration of most NLUs at present).