Archive · 20 Sep 2026
Poet Revives Azad Hind Fauj Songs For Pune Festival
The Azad Hind Fauj used songs to encourage its soldiers during India’s freedom struggle.
Only a few of those songs are widely remembered today.
Poet Pradeep Niphadkar has spent 40 years finding songs that are becoming forgotten.
He has collected more than 40 songs.
Twelve of them will be performed for the first time at this event.
The performance will happen on September 21.
It will be held at Bal Gandharva Rang Mandir in Pune.
The event is called Jai Hind.
It is part of the Pune Festival, which takes place during Ganeshotsav.
Poet Pradeep Niphadkar has spent 40 years collecting songs of the Azad Hind Fauj.
He has gathered more than 40 songs linked to the revolutionary force.
A dozen of the songs will receive their first-ever presentation on September 21.
The presentation will take place at Bal Gandharva Rang Mandir in Pune.
The event, titled Jai Hind, is part of the Pune Festival during Ganeshotsav.
- Who
- Poet and ghazal writer Pradeep Niphadkar collected the songs; the Azad Hind Fauj is the historical subject.
- What
- A dozen lesser-known Azad Hind Fauj songs will be presented for the first time.
- When
- September 21.
- Where
- Bal Gandharva Rang Mandir in Pune.
- Why
- The songs were collected and presented to preserve music associated with the Azad Hind Fauj and its revolutionary freedom-struggle era.
- Collector
- Pradeep Niphadkar
- Collection
- More than 40 Azad Hind Fauj songs
- First presentation
- A dozen songs
- Event date
- September 21
- Venue
- Bal Gandharva Rang Mandir, Pune
- Event name
- Jai Hind
- Festival
- Pune Festival during Ganeshotsav