Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Friday, 24 June 2022

MEMORIES of CHILDHOOD SONGS

Some 75 / 80  years ago , me and my siblings used to sing together ( when living at Bhavnagar - Gujarat / up to 1944 when we moved to Mumbai )

Mostly these were Gujarati songs written by poets like Prahlad Parekh - Pinakin Trivedi - Umashankar Joshi - Zaverchand Meghani ( my maternal uncle ) etc 

We also use to sing songs sung by Pankaj Mullick - Hemant Kumar - Kanan Devi - Jyuthica Ray etc

My sister Jyoti had penned these songs in a diary - in her own handwriting

A few days ago ( June 2022 ), she sent me this diary

From that compilation, I am reproducing below, some of my favourite Gujarati songs (Poet names are mentioned only in some cases)

Hopefully , someday soon , I will try to sing ( recite in my own voice ), a few lines where I remember the tune - and may be upload Audio-Video-Text , together

hcp / 25 June 2022

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