From Gireesh Chandrikapure@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 7 23:54:44 2023
naniwadekar
Let me tell that in the book 'Nad Vaibhav' by Pt. V. R. Athawale, his daughter accepts that his father (Pt. Athawale) composed the tune for 'Vande Mataram' set to Raga Desh, for the AIR when he was Station Director in Delhi.
Mr. B. V. Keskar suggested him to standardize the tune. Athawale came to know that the book Anandmath had references of raga desh. So he composed the tune in Desh raga. The tune was placed before the national committee and then passed to be broadcasted
from AIR.