NEW DELHI: Singers from more than fifteen countries performed a rendition of Bapu's famous "Vaishnava Jana To" song to mark
Mahatma Gandhi's 149th birth anniversary.
The videos of some of the performances were posted by Prime minister Narendra Modi on his Twitter account.
The famous 'bhajan' has gone global with artists from more than 124 countries contributing musically to pay homage to Gandhi through the 'bhajan'.
Popular Pakistani singer
Shafqat Amanat Ali was one of the artists from over 120 countries who sang Mahatma Gandhi's favourite bhajan "Vaishnava Jan to". He said he took it up as he thought it would be a good way to melt the ice between his home country and India.
All Indian missions abroad identified local artists or a group to record the 'bhajan' in the run-up to
Gandhi Jayanti.
ChinaCanadaCameroonHungaryBruneiAlgeriaBotswanaPakistanBoliviaBhutanSerbiaBahrainAzerbaijanAutraliaArmeniaRussiaArgentinaSenegalOn the 149th birth anniversary of the Mahatma earlier this week, Prime Minister Modi launched a medley version of the popular 'bhajan' by artists from over 40 countries, during the closing ceremony of the Mahatma Gandhi International Sanitation Conference.
Earlier this month, PM Modi had shown Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was visiting India, a video of a rendition of Mahatma's bhajan by a Russian artiste on a mobile phone.
A clip of Modi showing the video to Putin, during the lunch hosted by the Prime Minister for the Russian president, was posted by Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson, Raveesh Kumar.
The famous Gujarati hymn was penned by the 15th-century poet Narsimha Mehta and was one of the favourite 'bhajans' of Mahatma Gandhi who included it into the roster of prayers routinely sung before his meetings, it said.