Jan Samwaad(Dialoguing with the people) is a musical movement which tries to engage its audience into social and political issues plaguing our society and our times. These renditions, simple in form yet profound in essence, are a melange of personal and social issues encouraging the audience to ponder over some fundamental, stereotypical and preconceived societal concerns. During these conversations with the masses Jan Samwaad questions whether it is worth spending the entire life trying to find God or the so called Eternal or Divine without lending attention to the issues that we face in our daily life. Jan Samwaad is a mixed bag of songs that touch upon a variety of social predicaments be it the very relevant issue of illegal and unjust land acquisition from a farmer whose life is but synonymous to drudgery to the quest of a newly married innocent young girl to find a sojourn for herself as she embarks upon an endless journey of responsibilities and expectations. The hopelessness and despair that is so marked of today’s common man and his experiences owing to a variety of issues is something that genuinely concerns Jan Samwaad. It is in this wake of despondency that the listeners are egged to rethink if the efforts to find an “external” source of peace or power are worthwhile at all. Recognizing the need to restore communal harmony in a society with disintegrating values, Jan Samwaad seeks to challenge the motives of the perpetrators of communal hatred who still exist amongst us, even though they are not positioned in the power centre. Along this journey Jan Samwaad uses the “traditional”, but yes, only to question the “traditional” and employ the “typical” to disengage from it and look at the “atypical”.

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