Ever since my Daughter was born 5 years ago, I have developed a habit
of singing my favourite Bangla and Hindi songs (that means mostly RD Burman-Kishore
Kumar numbers) to Her. Apart from trying to introduce Her to the Golden Era of popular
Hindi/Bengali music, the idea has also been to keep Her away from the "Badtameez dil"/"Beat pe booty"-brand of atrocities.
And it seems my efforts are bearing fruit.
Recently, I went to a friend's house with my Daughter. The host,
a lover of
retro music, started playing some old songs on his mobile attached to a speaker.
After a song or two, "Tere bina zindagi
se koi" came on.
My Daughter was sitting on the floor and playing by Herself. Suddenly,
She looked up, cocked Her ears at the song that was playing, turned to me, and said:
"Baba, Baba, Jete jete poth-e holo deri...",
and then She started singing the Bangla version of the Aandhi song!
I was
astonished at how my 5-year-old had been able to recognize the tune of the Hindi
song and correctly identified the Bangla version of it. Evidently I must be doing
something right, as far getting my Daughter's ears attuned to good music is concerned.
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