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Ek hain sab Hindustani
Posted on: January 26, 2024
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This song post marks the 1000th song of Laxmikant Pyarelal as music directors in the blog.
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Today (26 January 2024) is Republic Day of India.
India became a republic on 26 January 1950. That was easily a red letter day in the history of Modern India. It was on this day that India decided to be a country that would be a democracy where each citizen, irrespective of his caste, creed, religion, gender, economic status etc would enjoy equality without discrimination. The country would be governed according to the acts of Indian constitution that was adopted on this date.
It is to the great credit of India that the country has followed the constitution of India and the ideals of Indian constitution have been followed in spirit and letter. Today, 74 years later, India is in a much better position that what it was when the fledgling nation of India tried to find its feet. Foreign powers, including those who were the erstwhile rulers of India had predicted that India would fall apart in a matter of decades. Those people, long gone by now, have been proved wrong. Then there were foreign powers that kept interfering in the internal affairs of India, trying to destabilize and divide the nation and to keep it backward. Despite their efforts, India kept growing, albeit at glacial pace.
There are people who look back at past with selectively and opine that “hamaare zamaane mein sab kuchh achcha thha“. That was hardly the case if one collects facts and examines them and compare them with other nations of that time, and secondly when we make comparisons with today.
For instance, India today is in a much better position today than in 1950. Literacy rate was 18.3% in 1951. In 1947, it was 12%. It is 77.77 % in 2023. So India had come up a long way. Our literate population may not be all that educated and employable, but good progress has been made. Now we have to ensure that our population is not just literate but are also capable of acting as trained manpower in wide variety of industries. These industries, by the way, were conspicuous by their absence in 1940s, when India became independent and subsequently became a republic.
Economy is the backbone of any industry. Economically India continued to be a very week country till 1990. Present generation Indians will not believe it if they are informed that Indian economy ran on doles and loans till 1990. Foreign currency was scarce and so if some Indian wanted to get foreign currency in order to go abroad, he had to run from pillars to post. If he was lucky, he would get a ridiculously meager amount of foreign currency.
Though Indian constitution was formed with the aim of helping Indians realize their potential and lead dignified lives, the constitution was not really used that way all the time. In a democracy, it is expected that people are allowed to do something unless it is expressly forbidden. But Indian government often passed rules that forbid people to do things unless they were expressly permitted. One such draconian rule was FERA (Foreign Exchange Regulation Act). According to it, all foreign exchange was the property of Government. Holding foreign currency and dealing in it was forbidden. This act killed any kind of industrial and business activities in India because one simply could not import any goods and services from abroad.
It was only in 1999 that this draconian act was repealed and it was replaced by FEMA (Foreign Exchange Management Act). Now keeping foreign currency and trading in it is no longer an offence. One can freely buy foreign currency while going abroad. One can also import foreign items on Amazon etc. paying in foreign currency online. Till 25 years ago, it was expressly prohibited and forbidden.
In any case, foreign exchange was in short supply till 1990 because Indian economy itself was closed and isolated from world economy. Closed economy of USSR was called Iron Curtain. India economy that aped USSR was likewise called Bamboo Curtain.
USSR collapsed in late 1980s and early 1990s. India, whose economy was propped up artificially thanks to USSR, collapsed.
As fate would have it, India miraculously survived. It was very fortuitous that right man found himself becoming appointed as the PM of India in 1991. Once he realized that Indian economy was in dire straits, he systematically and with great planning and due diligence kept bringing in reforms after reforms, and that too in a manner that often flew under the radar yet they were major reforms that altered the course of Indian economy. People who were till then not allowed to be part of Indian economy were now allowed to participate in running the economy. Draconian acts that forbid people to do anything unless expressly allowed were replaced by new acts that allowed everything to be done unless expressly forbidden.
The results slowly began to come. Three decades have passed after the Indian economy was opened up. Now, Indian Government no longer has to borrow money from IMF (something that almost every neighbor of India still does). Unlike in the past, India is flush with foreign currency because foreigners believe in Indian economy and they invest their money in Indian stock exchange. The foreign businesses have their branches in India. Not just that, some Indian business houses have become global brands.
India still has a long way to go. Indians cannot rest on their laurels. Annual per capita earning of Indians is only $ 2,400 or so. A country is called high income country when annual per capita income of that country crosses $12,000. So Indian per capita income must become five times its present value for India to be considered as a high income nation viz a developed nation. Assuming that the population remains constant, it means India GDP must touch $ 18 trillions. If an economy grows at 7 % per annum, that economy doubles in ten years. With this rule of thumb, we can see that Indian GDP needs to become 5 times its current size. So India will need to keep developing its economy at 7 % per annum for 25 years. If the growth rate could be made higher than 7 % then the target could be achieved in lesser time.
On this occasion, here is a song from ‘Devi’ (1970). ‘Devi’ was produced by TM Kittu & AV Subramaniam and directed by V Madhusudana Rao for Olympic Pictures, Madras. The movie had Nutan, Sanjeev Kumar, Rehman, Lalita Pawar, Farida Jalal, Mehmood, Aruna Irani, Dina Gandhi aka Dina Pathak, Gajanan Jagirdar, Manorama, Madan Puri, Baby Sarika (aka Moppet Suraj), Mukri, Lalita Kumar aka Lalita Sinha, Manmohan Krishna, Vishwa Mehra, Mallik, Sulochana Latkar etc. in it.
The film had five songs in it. Three songs have been covered in the past.
This song, the fourth from the movie to appear in the blog is sung by Asha Bhonsle. Anand Bakshi is the lyricist. Music is composed by Laxmikant Pyarelal.
Lyrics of this song were sent to me by Prakashchandra many republic days and independence days ago. He had also sent a video link of the song. According to Prakashchandra, the song was picturised on Nutan, Dina Pathak, Baby Sarika aka Moppet Suraj and Manmohan Krishna.
Pyarelal Sharma has been given Padma Bhushan in the list of Padma awards that were announced on 25 January 2024, on the eve of Republic Day. So this song is an appropriate song to mark the occasion.
What is more, this song is the 1000th song of Laxmikant Pyarelal in the blog. They become the second music directors (firs being Shankar Jaikishan) to reach four figures of songs in the blog.
I take this opportunity to wish each and every Indian (wherever they are) a very happy Republic Day. India is marching ahead proudly and is on its way to take its rightful place among the nations of the world.
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Song-Ek hain sab Hindustani (Devi)(1970) Singer-Asha Bhonsle, Lyrics-Anand Bakshi, MD-Laxmikant Pyarelal
Lyrics (Provided by Prakashchandra)
ek
ek hain sab hindustani
ek hain sab hindustani
jo do samjhe ae
jo do samjhe
us ki hai ye naadaani ee
do
hum sa bke do haath hain
haath hain apne saath to saare saath hain ae
teen
aagey number teen hai
jhoothh bada bud-soorat hai
aur sach badaa haseen hai
chaar
chaar dishaaon mein sab dhaam
chaar dishaaon mein sab dhaam
purab pachchim uttar dakkhin unn ke naam
ek do teen chaar
chaar ke aagey paanch hai
phoolon mein khushboo hai
aag mein kyaa hai
aanch hai
chhe kaa roop niraalaa hai
aisa waisa darwaaze ka taalaa hai ae
saat
sur hai saat sitaar mein
sa re ga ma pa dha ni
sa ni dha pa ma ga re sa
sur hai saat sitaar mein
saat achchambhe hain saare sansaar mein
aathh
aathh baje hain sun aagey
woh achcha
jo jaldi soye
aur jaldi jaagey
number nau ka hai kehna
number nau ka hai kehna
paas bhalon ke
door buron se tum rehna aa
dus
bas
bas karo ab so jaao
bas karo ab so jaao
meethhe meethhe sapnon mein tum kho jaao…ooo
ek hain sab hindustaani
hmmm….hmmmm…hmmmm….hmm hmmm hmmmm
hmmm….hmmmm…hmmmm….hmm hmmm….hmmm
hmmmmm……hmmm hmmmm
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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)
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एक
एक हैं सब हिंदुस्तानी
एक हैं सब हिंदुस्तानी
जो दो समझे॰॰ए
जो दो समझे
उसकी है ये नादानी
दो
हम सबके दो हाथ हैं
हाथ हैं अपने साथ तो सारे साथ हैं
तीन
आगे नंबर तीन है
झूठ बड़ा बदसूरत है
और सच बड़ा हसीन है
चार
चार दिशाओं में सब धाम
चार दिशाओं में सब धाम
पूरब पश्चिम उत्तर दख्खिन उन के नाम
एक दो तीन चार
चार के आगे पाँच है
फूलों में है खुशबू
आग में क्या है
आंच है
छह का रूप निराला है
ऐसा वैसा दरवाज़े का ताला है
सात
सुर हैं सात सितार में
सा रे गा मा पा धा नि
सा नि धा पा मा गा रे सा
सुर हैं सात सितार में
सात अचम्भे हैं सारे संसार में
आठ
आठ बजे हैं सुन आगे
वो अच्छा
जो जल्दी सोये
और जल्दी जागे
नम्बर नौ का क्या कहना
नम्बर नौ का क्या कहना
पास भलों के
दूर बुरों से तुम रहना
दस
बस
बस करो अब सो जाओ
बस करो अब सो जाओ
मीठे मीठे सपनों में तुम खो जाओ॰॰ओ
एक हैं सब हिंदुस्तानी
ह्म्मम ह्म्ममम ह्म्ममम
ह्म्म ह्म्मम ह्म्ममम
ह्म्मम ह्म्ममम ह्म्ममम
ह्म्म ह्म्मम ह्म्मम
ह्म्ममम ह्म्मम ह्म्ममम
“Devi” (1970) is a movie which was produced by Olympic pictures. A V Subramaniam and T M Kittu were the producers and the movie was directed by V Madhusudan Rao. The movie had Sanjeev Kumar, Nutan, Farida Jalal,Aruna Irani,Mehmood, Jagirdaar, Madan Puri, Mukri, Rehman, Manmohan krishna, Moppet suraj(aka sarika),Vishwa Mehra, Mallika, Lalita Pawar, Sulochana Latkar, Manorama, Lalita Kumari, Dina Gandhi aka Dina Pathak etc in it.
Read more on this topic…
Maine ek ladki pasand kar li
Posted on: August 30, 2008
Young kids growing up in India learn as much of their vocabulary from family members and friends as from Bollywood movies and songs. I learnt the meaning of “ladki pasand karna” for the first time when I heard my mother advising her brother (mama for me) to get married ( “Shaadi kar lo. Koi ladki pasand kar lo”).
As if on cue, this song ” maine ek ladki pasand kar li” started blaring on loudspeakers after a few days. And thanks to my newfound knowledge ( gained by overhearing my mother), I knew the meaning of the phrase “ladki pasand kar li”.
Read more on this song…
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