About Anhad Naad
Anhad naad is the unstruck sound — the one heard without anything being struck. It is as good a name as any for a tradition that has carried its songs for centuries mostly in people’s heads.
Why it exists
Jain stavans, stutis, sajjhays and bhajans circulate as photocopies, as forwarded messages, and as whatever somebody remembers. Every one of those works until the evening it does not — the photocopy is at home, the forward is nine hundred messages up, the hall has no signal, and it is your turn to sing.
This is one songbook that is always the same songbook, that opens in the script you read, and that does not need a network at the moment you need it most.
What is in it
Texts that are traditional and long out of copyright, and texts whose authors are named wherever they are known. Attribution is not metadata: a poet’s right to be named is theirs personally and does not lapse with anything else, so every song carries who wrote it and where the text came from, where that is known.
If you hold rights in something here, or a line is simply wrong, there is a form at the foot of every song. A person reads every one of them.
Who made it
Anhad Naad is built and maintained by Addvertiz, a studio in Mysuru, Karnataka. Branding · Design · Software — crafted in India.
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