On the 22 nd of November we celebrated the birth anniversary of our founder, Mr Rameshwarlal Toshniwalji. He started Awaas Seva Sadan as a home for elderly citizens who for various reasons are not able to live with their children in the traditional Indian joint family. Awaas ki Awaaz and all residents and staff wish to extend a heartfelt thanks to him on this occasion and pray for many blessings on his soul.

 Awaas has many talented residents. People with the gift of a good voice and musical ability who contribute to the evening prayer ceremony in the room used as a temple (mandir) .Those with the ability accompany the hymn singing with drums and shakers. Sainath plays the dolak, a long double ended drum, the ends giving different sounds. He plays different  rhythms with each hand, now and again as the song demands. he adds a foot tapping, all this while doing the singing too. The ladies shake sticks with small cymbals on them   There are two professional artists in Awaas. Prakash is also a keen photographer and we hope he will share some of his pictures on this blog site. Sainath likes to paint and being a Maharastrian he is particularly attached to the tribal style of art in this region known as Warli. This week he has made a picture representing the joy people feel when the Monsoon arrives, with people  dancing and playing musical instruments. Sainath al...