Dina's gift of Music

Creating miracles with her Harmony

Here’s Dina Das, one of our very active members of Team Miracle with her Harmony Sa-re-ga-ma Music group. Dina has already performed so many shows for us – at PRC, at the Prerna Hall of Command Hospital, and at Artificial Limb Centre, Pune.

Dina is proficient in classical music, gazals, Robindro-sangeet, Nazrulgeeti and Hindi film songs. She’s held stage shows at Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Pune. And although she’s busy with her music school and group, what I love about her is her enthusiasm in making time for these Team Miracle shows with us. “My music is a vehicle to bring some joy into the lives,” she keeps saying. 

She is supported by Ajay Rao and Pranay Joshi – busy finance professionals who come straight from office for the shows. And the entire Ghorai family – Arindam who drives us back and forth, his wife Sutapa who provides technical back-up with her ever-present laptop, little Anoushka who’s already a little nightingale in the making, and even tinier Piu, who has yet to find her singing voice. And to complete the Harmony Sa-Re-Ga-Ma group we have little Achala, and her mother Asha, who chips in as transport manager!

Thank you Dina and Harmony for creating such wonderful music for us all.

The Commando with the Golden Harmonica

Phurbu Rindol  - Playing the mouth-organ

Phurbu Rindol is a para-commando. He belonged to the elite Special Frontier Forces until he became a Quadriplegic in 1995 during a daring rescue mission. He was only 21 at that time.

“Three of us were rushed to Siachen on a rescue mission to extricate some jawans of the Gorkha Rifles who were stuck on a glacier. As we were conducting the rescue, a snow avalanche rushed down the mountain slopes. All the others were swept off the mountain slope. I remained buried in deep snow for more than 2 hours, before I was rescued.”

Rindol has only partial movement in his arms. And, as with many paraplegics, his lungs too are affected, hampering deep breathing. But what has not been affected is his indomitable will.

As with so many mountain folks, Rindol has a great sense of music. In fact he was a keen guitar player. Unable to handle that instrument now, he taught himself to play the harmonica (mouth organ). But, even that is becoming increasingly difficult – because of his limited lung capacity, and also to manouevre the little instrument. So Rindol is now training himself to become proficient in singing.

As the only singer at Paraplegic Rehabilitation Centre, Khadki, he is often called on stage during functions. For us too, a Music Programme is never complete until we’ve had this little treat.

Good work, Rindol. Keep it up! And God bless you.