Pratibha Kunj - Marathi Geetancha Sangraha  (Paperback, SANDEEP RAGHUNATH PATASKAR)

People are having affection of tone and rhythm by birth. In my childhood while hearing Hindi, Marathi songs on radio, I was attracted at the words, lyrics, meaning, melody and poem. Many times I thought that I must have lyrics of these songs on paper and I tried to write the same on paper while listening on radio the song. It became my hobby. Thousands of old Hindi, Marathi songs had been accumulated in my collection. But during the span of time this collection disappeared. But still the hobby is persisted. Because of this collection should not remain just to me, I compiled some of the scarce old Marathi songs and have tried to present in front of you for your relish. Meanwhile many other Medias were developed and therefore, media like radio was ignored. Now a days broadcasting of Marathi programs and songs from Radio are became very less. In fact in old days also very few people used to listen Marathi songs. Huge influence of Hindi language is the main reason for this. Hindi is the national language and spoken in all over India. Therefore production of Hindi films and songs is large and also it's propagating immensely. Since Marathi is regional language it uses within limited area like other regional language. Though these songs are very old, they have not been vanished from the memory and are still remembered by people. Many peoples are known these melodious songs, but they do not familiar with the correct words, lyrics of these poems. Therefore, I tried to bring lyrics of some of these Marathi songs in this book.