UNITY IN DIVERSITY is the theme selected by my kid for presentation at school as our nation celebrates the 65th year of Independance on 15th of August, 2011. The idea conceived and coordinated by her beloved teacher Miss Tanuja Karunakaran, took me back to my own school days where we were trained on different languages to sing as part of choir in memory of efforts by M.B.Sreenivasan(late) on national integration.
We present here some songs that can be used as part of such an event.
The Kannada and Gujarati songs selected are presently not available online. However lyrics of the Kannada song is noted below. (courtesy: Shri.L.Sasikant, Kozhikode and Shri.Srikanth Kammath, Mangalore)
Bharat mathe yu nina saputraru
hechara gondu baruthy harrooo
trivarna ranjitha dwajava neerisatha
matheya jaya jaya ennruvaroooooo...
The skit that focus on multiple diversities of culture (costume from different states), languages (placards written in various languages), songs and dance forms of each state, the various religions all depict the unique harmony in diversity of our motherland superbly.
JAI HIND
