User:Universal Life/Prabhat Samgiit

Prabhat Samgiit (Bengali: প্রভাত সঙ্গীত Probhat Shonggit, - see spelling variations below), also known as Songs of a New Dawn and Prabhat Songs, are songs composed by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar. Sarkar composed a total of 5,018 songs, including the lyrics and the tune, in a period of eight years from 1982 until his death in 1990.

While most of the songs are composed in Bengali, many others were composed in seven different languages. Many famous Indian artists, such as Haimanti Sukla, Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande, Archana Udupa and Rashid Khan have performed Prabhat Samgiit all over India.

Indian national and local newspapers have published many articles about Prabhat Samgiit, both in English and Indian languages. While some of these articles have expressed that Prabhat Samgiits contained many kinds of ragas, some called it a new genre or style of music and art. Dr. Subhas Sarkar of the Rabindra Bharati University, has expressed that the poetry of the lyrics contain many elements of mysticism and devotion and went further comparing those elements with the thoughts of Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo.

Etymology
In Bengali, the word Prabhát (প্রভাত - )) means dawn, morning or daybreak.