A song on millets featuring Prime Minister Narendra
Modi has been nominated for this year’s Grammy Awards. The song highlights the
health benefits and the government’s efforts to promote the nutritious cereal.
The song, ‘Abundance of Millets’, features
Indian-American Grammy-winning singer Falu (Falguni Shah) and her husband and
singer Gaurav Shah, and was released in June this year.
“Prime Minister Modi has written a song with me and my
husband Gaurav Shah,” said Falu.
She said the idea to write a song about millets came
when she met PM Modi in Delhi last year after winning the Grammy, adding that the
Premiere suggested to her she should write a song with a message of ending
hunger during their discussion on the power of music to bring change and uplift
humanity.
Falu earlier said she “naively” asked the Prime
Minister if he could write a song on millets.
The song celebrates the International Year of the
Millets, which was declared by the United Nations, this year.
The proposal was brought forward by India and endorsed
by Members of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Governing Bodies
and the 75th Session of the UN General Assembly.
The Modi government has been promoting millet as a
nutritious cereal, highlighting its health benefits and how it can help
alleviate poverty.
The cereal was even part of the menu of PM Modi’s
State Dinner when he visited the US.
PTI
