SGPC mulls music academy in memory of Bhai Mardana

ibune News Service

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Amritsar, August 24

A delegation of Kafila-e-Mir All India (regd), Punjab, arrived at the Golden Temple and met Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Bibi Jagir Kaur.

The delegation included several eminent Punjabi singers who submitted a memorandum to her demanding the establishment of a music academy in the memory of Bhai Mardana.

She assured the delegation that the SGPC would open a music academy in which students would be taught tanti saaj (stringed instruments) and rabab (a lute-like musical instrument).

Bhai Mardana was the first rabbi kirtania of guru ghar, who had the good fortune to be in the company of Guru Nanak Dev for a long time. She told that Bhai Mardana has an important place in Sikh history and Sikhs always remember him with respect.

“On the occasion of the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev at Gurdwara Sri Ber Sahib, Sultanpur Lodhi, the celebrations began with a special nagar kirtan from Gurdwara Sri Rababsar Sahib, built in memory of Bhai Mardana, with 550 stringed instruments”, she said.

SGPC president said a hall has already been constructed at Gurdwara Sri Ber Sahib Sultanpur Lodhi in the memory of Bhai Mardana.

Office-bearers of Kafila-e-Mir All India thanked the president of the SGPC.