IN MEMORIAM

IN MEMORIAM

"Aapne toh Bharat ka nakshaa hi badal diya," said Lata Mangeshkar endearlingly to Narendra Modi over phone when the latter called her to wish her on her last birthday. 

Lata Mangeshkar was not only the greatest singer we have had but was a deep soul, a visionary. It may be no ordinary coincidence that she passed away at the exact hour of immersion of Devi Saraswati on 6 February, 2022, the immersion beginning at 7.a.m. shortly after which she also passed away. Thus, Saraswati in Her fractional earthly incarnation united in dissolution with Her divine form at the time of final merger.

Bharat Ratna Lata Mangeshkar, Nightingale of India, the musical pulse of the nation for decades, celibate and pure, carrier of a harmonic culture straddled across seven notes, was in full national honour bid farewell to with the Prime Minister visiting her in state at Shivaji Park, Mumbai. And now the Lata Mangeshkar Marg has come up in holy Ayodhya with a massive veena donning the space to remind all of Devi Saraswati's earthly incarnation.

Written by Sugata Bose 

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