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National Integration Council and that programme is to spread out patriotic songs. Let
every child in our country sing patriotic song. Where are all these patriotric songs.
Some people ask me how did you get into all this. I said well. I heard one song from a
great martyr who as he goes to the gallows – Khudiram Bose, what is your last desire.
My last desire is to sing a song. He says O, mother India, these people are killing me,
British People are killing me but I will come again and again, one song and he is prepared
to go to gallows and that one song was enough for me. I make use of it, I started with it
when I was thirteen, I was captured by British police, then I started and still I am
continuing to do this. Where are all those songs, what dirty songs we sing and our All
India Radio, Doordarshan - they have made a kind of a determination to eliminate our
classical music. Two great musicians in India, one was, you made him Bharat Ratna -
Great Bismillah Khan. Another was equally great - Ustad Bade Gulam Ali Khan. Both
of these musicians had said “if one man, one woman in every Indian family had learned
classical music, India would not have divided into India and Pakistan”. So such great
force is there in Music. Unfortunately, All India Radio and also Doordarshan, if they
succeded in anything, it is in eliminating all classical music. Filmi, filmi, filmi, filmi, how
can filmi music do the culture this. This classical music can bring into our nation. Sir, I
want myself to be exploited please exploit me, I can go wherever there are groups of
people. Yesterday I was somewhere in Uttar Pradesh. I said come on sing along with
me. However …………………………but then they have no time. Otherwise they
both, Dr. Manmohan Singh Ji, Smt. Sonia Ji, they saw just one programme when 18
languages we have in the Indian constitution, all the 18 languages presented themselves
and they said well there is some potential, because let us remember, this is what I say in
all my camps. I have a document here, one document where a young man has written to
me. “I also thought India belongs only to the Hindus but I came to a camp. Now I think
well how can it be only for Hindus. India belongs to Hindus, Muslims, Christians and
Hindi speaking people, Assamese speaking people, Tamil speaking people”. So one
chance to do this and we need to broaden our outlook of all Indian people, especially
the young people. Please help me do that and if National Integration Council takes just
one programme of bringing young people together and get hammering. On the day
India became free, 14 th night, 14 th August 1947, all the Indians should have taken to his
or her mind - I am going to serve this country. How can I harm any other Indian, how
can I be corrupt, how can I be cheating, all these things should have come. On that day
itself, but even now it is not late, let us start the process and National Integration
Council can do many many things positive. Punishment to crime may be all right. But
then let us try to prevent violence before it begins.
Thank you.
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