You have an ear for music

Jun 26, 2024

Just the word Music... filled my heart with rapture.
When I was a small child in my Convent the nun who taught us music said to me, “You have an ear for music.”
I couldn't understand exactly what this was supposed to mean. Didn't everyone have ears? I just loved to sing the hymns and other school songs.
When my husband and I met in college we were entranced by The Beatles and believe me they got us!! We found them terribly nice. After our marriage we moved onto The Carpenters... Shirley Bassey... Barbara Streisand...and loads of other music makers...What does music do? It lifts one’s spirit! Joy... rapture... peace.

What is fascinating is that with the songs the moments are welded within... I hear a song and I'm transported into the moment that we heard it and what we felt!!
Very few young people are familiar with earlier singers in our Hindustani music. No one knows much about Mukesh Ji or Talat Sahab or Begum Akhtar, Rafi Sahab or Manna Dey Ji or ghazals by singers other than Jagjit Singh Ji.
But I begin to cry when I hear songs that my dear husband loved. We shared our lives on every note and chord of our life... and Deeksha keeps a sharp lookout for signs of emotion. and yells, “Stop that music Dadi is in tears!!”

Kum Kum Ajit Singh

Kum Kum Ajit Singh a former teacher at Mayo College Girls’ today enjoys the life of a satisfied and doting Dadi. Residing with her family in Ajmer she loves to reminiscence, observe and write.