A SONG about millets featuring India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been nominated for this year's Grammy Awards.
The song highlights both the health benefits and the govt's efforts to promote the cereal.
The song, Abundance in Millets, featuring Indian-American Grammy-winning singer Falguni Shah and her husband and singer Gaurav Shah, was released in Jun.
"Modi has written a song with me and my husband Gaurav Shah," she told PTI.
She said the idea to write a song about millets came when she met Modi in Delhi last year after winning the Grammy, adding that he suggested to her she should write a song with a message of ending hunger.
Shah added that she "naively" asked the Prime Minister if he could write a song on millets.
The proposal was first brought forward by India, it was then endorsed by Members of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization Governing Bodies and the 75th Session of the UN General Assembly no less.
The cereal was even part of the menu of Modi's state dinner when he visited the US.
Shah said she was initially nervous about writing the song with the Prime Minister, but the "whole collaboration happened in a very organic way".
"It's one thing to write for him and it's one thing to write with him, as in the middle of the song, you will hear his speech written and narrated in his voice," she commented.
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