Cultural Medley during Covid-19 Lockdown

All of us are living through an uncertain time due to the on-going worldwide Covid-19 pandemic. Our usual activities and lifestyles have been disrupted in a fundamental way. But human spirit is indomitable. We have seen that people have broken the monotony of staying locked down at home in innovative ways. Members and friends of Udayan, Oxford gave expression to their creativity through singing, reciting, playing music, composing poems and even fundraising for the cyclone Amphan, the natural disaster that tore through lives of millions in India and Bangladesh.

Here is a collection of those individual performances which we will continue to add to and alter:

Vedic hymns in Sanskrit 
Singer: Anuradha Roma Palchaudhuri

'Prashna'- Poem
 Composition & Recitation: Joya Banerjee

'Nibida ghana aandhaare'
Singer: Minakshi Ghosh

'Still I Rise...' by Maya Angelou
Translation & Recitation: Mamata Nanda

'Ei lobhinu sanga taba...'
Violin: Justin Greenhalgh & Lucia Singer
Harmonium: Ejaz Huq

Poems by Maya Angelou
Translation & Recitation: Mamata Nanda

'seidin ei maath...', Roopasee Baanglaa
by Jibanananda Das, Recitation: Kanad Mallik

'O akooler kool...'
Singer: Minakshi Ghosh

Baatighar (Light House)
Composition & Recitation: Sugata Ghosh

'Naai baa daako...'
Singer: Ejaz Huq

'Aaji jata taaraa...'
Violin: Lucia Singer & Justin Greenhalgh
Harmonium: Ejaz Huq

'Labanye purna praana...'
Singer: Sarmishtha Guha

'Sakaatare oi kaandichhe...'
Singer: Sugata Ghosh

'Aakaashe saat ti taaraa...',
Roopasee Baanglaa by Jibanananda Das
Recitation: Kanad Mallik

'O je maane naa maanaa...'
Singer: Sarmishtha Guha

'Je raate more duaarguli...'
Singer: Ejaz Huq

'Aaji naahi naahi nidraa...'
Singer: Minakshi Ghosh

'Baanglaar mukh aami...'
Roopasee Baanglaa by Jibanananda Das
Recitation: Kanad Mallik

'Aami bahu baasanaay...'
Singer: Ejaz Huq

'Sangshaya timo maajhe...' 
Singer: Minakshi Ghosh