PM released AIR copy of ‘Ramcharitmanas’

Prime Minister Narendra Modi released a special digital version of epic Ramcharitmanas produced by All India Radio but two years ago, the Prasar Bharati Board had red-flagged such a move.

• It has taken more than 30 years to get all the work recorded and digitally restored when the process of digitisation started in Prasar Bharati in 2005.
• In the late 1970s under Bhopal station director Samar Bahadur Singh and later, director E.M. Joseph, who got AIR staff artists and folk artists to give music to Ramcharitmanas, and this was aired on radio stations in the North.
• The Ramcharitmanas was composed and recorded for the first time in 1980 at Akashvani Bhopal.
• The Prime Minister also felicitated 7 leading artists of the Bhopal Gharana who have sung the recordings of Goswami Tulsidas’ work.