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Jailbirds? satsang with Parvati
?Hame kuch kuch hua hai,? Model Jail inmates claimed in unison after listening to a ?paapi? pop-star-turned peacenik Parvati Khan on Monday. She held a satsang session of the inmates undergoing life term at the jail. Parvati played a number of devotional songs that reverberated in the confines of the fortified walls. Mere gaano ko sunne ke baad kuch kuch hota hain na? was a query that she posed to her audience. And the reply delighted her. Main ek paapi hoon, she claimed and added, ?agar main apne app ko badal sakti hoon to app kyon nahin ( If I can change myself then why cannot you?).?
“Hame kuch kuch hua hai,” Model Jail inmates claimed in unison after listening to a ‘paapi’ pop-star-turned peacenik Parvati Khan on Monday.
She held a satsang session of the inmates undergoing life term at the jail.
Parvati played a number of devotional songs that reverberated in the confines of the fortified walls. Mere gaano ko sunne ke baad kuch kuch hota hain na? was a query that she posed to her audience. And the reply delighted her. Main ek paapi hoon, she claimed and added, “agar main apne app ko badal sakti hoon to app kyon nahin ( If I can change myself then why cannot you?).”
As over 250 inmates swayed to the tunes of devotional songs, Parvati laced her session with a preachy rhetoric. Listen to this line, she emphasised and sang, “Jab zulmon ka ho saamna, tab toohi hame thamna………..” Raha mein aaye jo deen dukhi…………. Sukh ke sab saathi, dukh mein naa ko oo…i…. The songs were dotted with queries from the singer. “Are you all liking the session?” she quipped, and the listeners replied with a thumbs-up, and a shout, “Bahut achcha lag raha hai.” The singer even snubbed the media persons for ‘interfering between the she and the listeners’. But she begged time from the inmates to attend the media. “This satsang session is part of my peace mission,” said the singer. She added that this is her attempt to reform the prisoners as everybody on this earth was a prisoner. “The only difference being that the prisoners here are a better lot than the outsiders, as the former have time to think and retrospect, while the outside people do not bother to look back, and keep on committing blunders after blunders,” she said.
If for some, the programme was start of reform, but for some it was a mere manoranjan or chakallas (a crude word entertainment). “This was for the first time that such a session was organised in the jail,” claimed the senior superintendent (jail) Suresh Chandra.
Divisional commissioner R K Mittal was the chief guest of the function. He said his book on prisoners was being translated in Telugu, and it would hit the stands very soon.
