Renowned cardiac surgeon Dr Devi Shetty is known to play Indian classical music during surgery. Experts say certain ragas help a person emote in a particular way.
Renowned cardiac surgeon Dr Devi Shetty is known to play Indian classical music during surgery. Experts say certain ragas help a person emote in a particular way. Raga Bhairavi, for instance, evokes a sense of freshness in the listener, just the way smells and fragrances do. The world over, essential oils (EOs) are used in aromatherapy.
Imagine the positive impact possible by fusing the two. Santoor player Pandit Tarun Bhattacharya has done it. He experimented with a batch of mentally-challenged people at Divine Smile, a home in Kolkata. A one-hour session extended to over two and the kids extracted a promise from him to visit them everyday. Their condition showed improvement.
Bhattacharya has tried the experiment abroad with equal success. At the Music of the World concert in New York, Bhattacharya recalls a lady coming up to him and saying she had been suicidal, but his session had restored in her a purpose in life.
Bhattacharya has globally launched a four-CD album to create awareness on the fusion of music with EOs.The album kit contains a brochure explaining which EO will go well with a particular raga. According to Bhattacharya, Bhairavi, an early morning raga, fuses well with light fragrance of jasmine or rose to awaken a sense of freshness. Similarly, Yaman, an evening raga, will go well with sandal while Raga Bageshri, a late night raga, and a strong rose smell evoke sadness. On the other hand, Kirwani and a fruity fragrance of peach evoke romantic feelings.“During recovery, if a patient listens to ragas like Hanshadhwani, Kirwani and Kalavati, the recovery is faster,” Bhattacharya says.
Bhattacharya got the idea of fusing music with aromatherapy while waiting at airport lounges where people often try out exotic fragrances on testing papers. “I used to wonder which raga would go well with each fragrance,” he recalls. Since it is not easy to use such therapy at public concerts, he is conducting music and aromatherapy sessions with small groups of stressed-out individuals in a chamber music format. He is talking to a group of TV and film artistes and businessmen for such sessions.
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