India and the world are celebrating Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary on Wednesday. To mark the occasion, the Russian embassy in India posted a video of singer Sati Kazanova singing Gandhi’s favourite bhajan Vaishnav Jan To. Kazanova is accompanied on the sitar and other Indian instruments.
Narsi Mehta’s 15th-century poem in Old Gujarati, Vaishnav Jan To Tene Kahiye, was adopted by Gandhi for prayers at his Sabarmati Ashram.
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