For the unborn…

“Santoor strains music to ears of unborn too.” A simple article reproduced below:

Pune, November 12: Santoor maestro Pandit Shivkumar Sharma can
take a bow-this time to an unborn audience.

Award-winning
paediatric surgeon and former Vice Chancellor of the University of Mumbai, Dr
Snehalata Deshmukh, has been experimenting with different types of music as
therapy for the foetus and finds children in their mothers' womb seem to prefer
the notes of his santoor.


In the seven years of her
research-she has counseled more than 350 mothers-Dr Deshmukh realised that two
ragas in Indian classical music, raga Yaman and raga Kedar are most liked by the
foetus.


''These are calm and soothing ragas, but they are
also joyful, which is probably why they are a favourite with the foetus,'' she
said.