The Peace Gong Bhopal launched a music band. The Peace Gong is a children's newspaper. It is spread throughout India from Jammu & Kashmir to Kerala and from Assam to Gujarat. An initiative of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore foundation, it has a print edition, a web edition, a talking paper and also newspaper in regional languages and Braille. The newspaper now takes initiative to come forward and take music as a source to spread the message of peace and non-violence around the world.
The Peace Gong Bhopal band was launched in at the campus of voluntary organisation Arushi on Tuesday, on the occasion of International Women's Day. It consists of six members: Sargam Kushwaha, Falguni Purohit, Ruchi Vishwakarma, Jayati Dubey, Khushi Gupta and Kanupriya Gupta. The former three are visually impaired. Kanupriya Gupta is also the national editor of the newspaper. There are two guitarists — Jayati and Kanupriya and Khushi plays synthesizer. All the members are singers.
The programme started with Falguni singing 'Satyam Shivam Sundaram'. The rest of programme had songs on women which are Bekhauff, Rupaiya, Chil gaye Naina, Jiya re, Hum to aise hai bhaiyan, Dil hai chota sa and O ri chiraiya. The programme concluded with 'Badal pe paon hai'. They will write and compose songs in future. They are going to perform for awareness on various issues especially disability and gender equality.