Ek Sur Ek Taal - A unique value education movement for students and
youth
A program of value education and awareness especially produced and
conducted for young students, Ek Sur Ek Taal has created a niche of its own.
Its veracity has been endorsed by the overwhelming support and enthusiasm
expressed by more than 2.8 million students in India who have undergone its
training.
The guiding principles of this program are to inculcate the spirit of human
values and universal brotherhood through music, and to nurture adherence to
a socio-cultural code of conduct with moral responsibility among youngsters.
In this project, students are trained to sing songs of different languages which
inculcate a sense of harmony, brotherhood, peace, service and increase
social awareness on issues like environment protection and preservation,
water conservation, health and hygiene, population control and eradication of
social ills. All the songs are based on these social themes and are the works
of well-known poets and thinkers. The experience and knowledge gained by
students while undergoing this musical program is considered by many music
gurus and eminent teachers to be often more effective than general
classroom teaching. In fact, its effectiveness is on account of its unique style
of training and presentation as well as the ambience created by the emotional
bonding of skillful Biradari faculty with students during the training workshop.
In Ek Sur Ek Taal, Biradari faculty trains students to sing songs in different
Indian languages which are the works of great poets like Gurudev
Rabindranath Tagore, Dr. Subramaniam Bharati, Keshavsut, Dr. Umashankar
Joshi, Pt. Narendra Sharma, Shivkumar Batalvi, Dr. Bhupen Hazarika, Dr.
Jyoti Prasad Agrawal, K S Narasimha Swami, Abhilash, Pt. Durga Prasad
Maheshwari, Kusumagraj, Vilas Jaitapkar and Payaam Saidi. The lyrics have
been woven in music by Dr.Bhupen Hazarika, Kuldeep Singh, Ashit Desai,
Kaveri Sridhar, Ashok Waingankar and others. Most of these are music
productions of Yuvak Biradari.
Thousands of students singing collectively with synchronized movements
creates a spectacular view and generates electrifying waves laden with
messages of hope, courage and duty to the audience as well as to the society
at large.
Never before in our country has such an activity been conducted on such a
large scale wherein huge groups of students numbering 10000-50000 present
this show at a time in the presence of distinguished guests at big stadiums.
Since its first presentation in Guwahati (in 1985) till date, Yuvak Biradari has
directly trained and rejuvenated the lives of 28,50,000 youngsters in more
than 200 towns and cities across India through more than 1000 workshops.
These programs have been witnessed, appreciated, encouraged and
rewarded from time to time by countless people as well as eminent dignitaries
including the then Presidents of India: Pratibha Patil, Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam,
R Venkararaman, Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, Gyani Zail Singh, and then
Prime Ministers Rajiv Gandhi, and P V Narasimha Rao, many Chief Ministers
and eminent personalities like Akhilesh Yadav, Vilasrao Deshmukh, Mulayam
Singh Yadav, Arjun Singh, Pratap Singh Rane, Chabildas Mehta, Hiteshwar
Saikia, Ram Niwas Mirdha, Ajit Wadekar, Sunil Gavaskar, Amitabh Bachchan
and many others.
This project has received supported by the Government of India (Ministry of
HRD) as well as various state governments (particularly Uttar Pradesh,
Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa).
Biradari is probably the only organization in India running such a unique
program successfully since so many years. This program has been presented
at Delhi, Lucknow, Allahabad, Guwahati, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Bangalore,
Jaipur, Udaipur, Trivandrum, Hyderabad, Gwalior, Kanpur, Thane and many
other places in India.
