Good news for Odia-knowing devotees of Lord Jagannath across the globe. Public service broadcaster All India Radio will soon upload timeless Odia devotional songs of Lord Jagannath on YouTube.
AIR Director-General F. Sheheryar, who was here for release of the CD containing the first tranche, the songs would soon be available on YouTube for internet users.
Coinciding with Nabakalebara Rath Yatra, the first tranche of bhajans (devotional song) CD was released by Dibya Singh Dev, who is widely considered Puri King, here.
The CD contains 13 devotional songs sung by late Nimaicharan Harichandan, Balakrushna Das, Shyam Sundar Kar, Bhikarichanran Bal, Raghunath Panigrahi, Akhyay Mohanty, Mohammad Sikandar Alam, Markandeya Mohapatra, Kashinath Pujapanda, Radhakrushna Bhanja, Shyamamani Devi, Snehalata Praharaj and Kalyani Bhattacharjee.
These devotional songs of 1960s and 1970s collected from the archives of AIR, Cuttack, were released on occasion of Nabakalebara Rath Yatra. Mr. Sheheryar said more such bhajans collected from the AIR archives would be released in near future.
Published - July 20, 2015 12:00 am IST