KC International School (KCIS) in Jammu hosted the launch of a devotional music album titled "Suroon Ki Bhakti" on 21 July, with a Padma Shri awardee attending as chief guest, according to a report in Daily Excelsior's print edition the same day. The album carries four devotional bhajans, including "Guru Bhajan Bina Sukh Shanti Nahi" and "Ae Dukh Bhanjan Maruti Nandan," a track dedicated to Lord Hanuman at Ram Ghar.
KCIS President Chaitanya Chowdhary welcomed guests at the ceremony, and Principal Anupama Sinha and Vice-Principal Roma Gupta presented saplings to attendees as a mark of respect — a gesture the school has used at other public events it has hosted.
Part of a broader moment for devotional music
The KCIS launch lands in the middle of a small wave of devotional-music activity in Jammu this month — Press Club Jammu hosted the release of another bhajan, "Kari Lai Yakeen," just days earlier — and taps into a trend researchers and national outlets have been tracking well beyond the city: young listeners, including in India's cities, turning to devotional and bhajan sessions as a form of communal, low-key gathering, sometimes styled as "bhajan clubbing." A school-hosted album launch is a smaller, more local version of the same pull — devotional music as a shared youth and community activity rather than only a religious observance.
KCIS, a CBSE school on Akhnoor Road in Paloura, regularly hosts cultural events alongside its academic calendar, from its Annual Day to inter-school sports fixtures, and this album launch fits that same pattern of the school positioning itself as a cultural venue for the wider community, not just a classroom.
Source: Daily Excelsior, print edition, 22 July 2026.
