As many as 29 fascinating and foot-tapping Indian tunes can be performed by the music bands of the Military.
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New Delhi: Indian tunes based mostly on Indian Classical Ragas would be the flavour of ‘Beating the Retreat’ ceremony this yr. The occasion be graced by President and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces Droupadi Murmu, on the historic Vijay Chowk in New Delhi on January 29.
As many as 29 fascinating and foot-tapping Indian tunes can be performed by the music bands of the Military, the Navy, the Air Power and the State Police and Central Armed Police Power (CAPF).
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The ceremony will start with the massed band’s ‘Agniveer’ tune which can be adopted by the enthralling tunes like ‘Almora’, ‘Kedar Nath, ‘Sangam Dur’, ‘Queen of Satpura’, ‘Bhagirathi’, ‘Konkan Sundari’ by Pipes and Drums band.
The occasion will come to a detailed with the ever-popular tune of ‘Sare Jahan se Acha’.
On January twenty ninth yearly, ‘Beating the Retreat’ ceremony on the Vijay Chowk marks the fruits of the four-day-long Republic Day celebrations.
The ceremony traces its origins to the early Fifties when Main Roberts of the Indian Military indigenously developed the distinctive ceremony of show by the massed bands. It marks a centuries outdated navy custom, when the troops ceased preventing, sheathed their arms and withdrew from the battlefield and returned to the camps at sundown on the sounding of the Retreat. Colors and Requirements are cased and flags lowered.
