It is sung at the annual Anzac Day services in Australia and New Zealand and in some Remembrance Day services in Canada and the United Kingdom. Abide With Me was written by Henry Francis Lyte in 1847 while he lay dying – he survived only a further three weeks after its completion. The Christian hymn I refer to is Abide With Me and the film song is “Ae Maalik Tere Bande Ham” from V Shantaram’s immortal Do Aankhen Barah Haath. but on that sometime and somewhere else).Īnyway, lets return to the point. (Well, The Dirty Dozen also had a similar theme but that was a suicide mission in all senses of the word and only one of the 12 survives…. The film itself – about the reformation of convicts, even those sentenced for heinous crimes such as murder – was also pathbreaking and inspired a number of states to contemplate such prison reforms. Here I intend to compare two moving prayers – one a Christian hymn that is universally famous and the second, which was originally in a Hindi film of the 1950s but became quite famous – even being made the prayers at schools in one particular state.
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It is possible that the rhythm so generated comes close to the music of the celestial spheres…. anyway) sense of togetherness when they are performed collectively. though I would not choose to dwell much on something that ultimately…. Sometimes, prayers – whatever language they are in – have the capacity to affect people positively and bring peace – it may the words or the way they are chanted or sometimes even it is the (as I can tell from personal experience from an event sometime towards the fag end of the annus horribilis 2009 ….