abstract:A Bhajan is any type of devotional song. It has no fixed form: it may be as simple as a mantra or kirtan or as sophisticated as the dhrupad or kriti with music based on classical ragas and talas.
On auspicious days, villagers throng here to pray, while vendors sell vermillion powder, sweets, beads and bangles and folk musicians strike up their instruments to accompany bhajans (hymns) sung soulfully by wandering mendicants.
He sang where he could, too, in the early years: bhajans, or devotional songs, for All India Radio's Lucknow station for 25 rupees a day, and occasional songs for films later.