MUSIC AS A NECESSITY IN SCHOOLS (PART 1)

In a country where people need to take quite a sizeable amount of time to learn to decipher between the definitions of Education and Literacy, it is definitely of no surprise that such a requisite form of art such as music is completely neglected in the extremely dysfunctional Indian Educational System. Due to the ability to verbosely elaborate upon this topic, I will be dividing the entire article into two parts. On this month's issue of Verity, I will just try to introduce the topic with a simple case study. The rest will be elaborated through the October issue

I have had the opportunity to study at a very posh school, and as usual - music classes were completely taken away from us at the tender age of 11. Music was vaguely encouraged upon the students and even when music wasn't there as a form of an academic subject, nothing much was done to inculcate music in an extracurricular level. The Choir was honestly nothing more than a flimsy joke.

Here are the situation and we, as the youth NEED to overcome the same. In the next issue, I will, through interviews with the best artists in the country put forward a few possible ways to inculcate music as a necessity as a form of academic education in schools.