First appeared in www.scroll.in on October 3, 2015. Community singing of bhajans or devotional song-texts was part of the daily routine at the ashrams set up by Mahatma Gandhi.  He asked vocalist and music educationist Vishnu Digambar Paluskar (1872-1931) to depute a disciple to conduct these community singing sessions at the Sabarmati Ashram.  Accordingly, Paluskar sent his disciple Narayan Khare to the Ashram.  Khare was mainly responsible for compiling the Ashram Bhajanavali or the prayer book containing bhajans and