HUM Nishād

The very term HUM Nishād denotes a platform that encourages developing music as passion and a medium of ensuring peace, joy and harmony. HUM Nishād is an Institute of Music and Culture that has built a platform which spreads music through structured training sessions and regular music classes, creative sessions, performances, research and cultural exchange programmes. It is in pursuit of incessant happiness through music.

The acronym HUM means— ‘H’ for Humanity, ‘U’ for Universe and ‘M’ for Music. And nishād is the seventh swara or the last note in the octave of Hindustani art music. In other words, it is the seventh degree of a musical scale. Under the auspices of innumerable music lovers, Mohammad Rafi Socio-Cultural Trust, HUM Nishād, has bloomed with a dream to offer fragrance of happiness, melody and harmony among the mass. It promises to offer joy and bliss through music. Music, an elixir, promises to help one transcend and get rid of moribund maladies like stress and depression.

Music is one of the strongest media that fights stress and depression. It is believed that mere combination of some melodic notes that successfully resonates in the mind of the listener, truly leaves an indelible impact that directly corresponds with a person’s positive activity in life. It induces a significant dose of positive sensation that reverberates within oneself and eventually promotes happiness and peace of mind.

Vision

HUM Nishād solely believes in dissemination of happiness and compassion among the mass through different positive approaches in life. Mass means people irrespective of age groups, even those who face challenges of life in different perspective— in one hand, for some life means tremendous pressure and competition; a never-ending fight to survive and prove to be the fittest; a chase to be the forerunner; and on the other hand for some (especially senior citizens, specially-abled group of people, people with dysfunctional challenges in life etc.) life means complete sterility; beyond a hopeful ‘tomorrow’ and without any meaning.

HUM Nishād streamlines life by helping one feel and understand competitions through the right approach. Managing competitive modes in life through positivity is the sole understanding of HUM Nishād. HUM Nishād prepares a person to face common challenges by striking out fetters like lack of confidence, indecision, depression, stress and many more through counselling; by extracting the potential from the self; helping one see the true reflection and worth of the self; making one self-sufficient and bold to face challenges in life and above all, retaining passion to visualise one’s dream in life. The approach that HUM Nishād opts is absolute optimism and living with passion. HUM Nishād orients one’s psyche through continuous celebration, which means perennial grooming of the self without stress. It promotes the value of the ‘I’, which means the self that resides in every soul— Ātmavat sarva bhuteśu is what HUM Nishād strongly upholds. Music, as HUM Nishād believes, plays one of the pivotal roles in curbing some of the toughest challenges in life. Music is the path that leads to immortal bliss.

HUM Nishād celebrates both tradition and modernity. It celebrates music and helps one immerse oneself in its richness; explore its idiom; discover its nuances and preserve its timeless essence. It is an exploration of world music in its entirety. From promoting an understanding, learning and creating music – vocal and instrumental, to building a musical bond between all music lovers, the artiste and the rasika (lovers of music), and creating an archival treasure of music – it’s the gamut that HUM Nishād offers as a bud. It dreams to bloom and unfurl its petals with a view to promoting more and more happiness and music with time.

Mission

HUM Nishād, a forum that stands for humanity, universe and music, believes in seeing dream and enlivening passion for something irrespective of age, debility and dysfunctional challenges. Music, it believes, has the power to uphold one’s desire to live even in old age. It resonates with the soul to unify oneself with the Almighty. HUM Nishād, dedicates its entire endeavour for inducing music as a panacea among the mass. Music, as we believe, has immense potential to restrain and also cure some of the maladies detrimental to not only an individual’s metal and physical health but also society in a whole. HUM Nishād is thus born to offer substantial relief through music.

HUM Nishād’s mission— • Value education through music among students along with formal training in various musical genres. • Music as a therapy and relief to de-stress professionally hard pressed individuals. • Training and organising performing art sessions for senior citizens and differently-abled people in order to visualize a ‘tomorrow’, which seems to have disappeared from their life. • Language training sessions for correct dissemination of thoughts and basic ethics in order to prevent misunderstanding among people. • Publication of novel thoughts, contributions, achievements and success of HUM Nishād’s members through bi-annual journal.