India in the ABU Radio Song Festival

India
Participating broadcaster	All India Radio
Participation summary
Appearances	5 (10 entries)
First appearance	2012
Last appearance	2018

India have participated in the ABU Radio Song Festival five times. The Indian broadcaster, All India Radio, has been the organiser of the Indian entry since the country's debut in the contest in 2012.

History

2012

All India Radio is one of the founder members in the ABU Radio Song Festivals, having participated in the very first ABU Radio Song Festival 2012. India submitted two songs for the first festival in Seoul, South Korea, these were Bimblotica with "I'm Girl" and Mathur Lakshmi Keshava & Group with "Vayam Atra Sanjataha Asmakam Punyam". Neither of the two submissions from India were selected to participate in the 15 song final.

2014

In 2014 All India Radio submitted two songs to participate in the festival in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Both songs were revealed on 18 March 2014, the submissions were Abhijith Kishen with "Be The Change" and Mangka Mayanglambam with "Tamla Loibi Napom".[1] Mangka Mayanglambam was selected to perform in the televised show the first Indian entrant to achieve this, Abhijith was however not selected to perform in Sri Lanka.[2]

2015

India participated in the ABU Radio Song Festival for a third time in 2015. Two songs were submitted to represent the country in India, Padavi Deshmukh with "Voice of Women" and Peepal Tree with "Nayi Khushi".[3] Peepal Tree were selected to represent India in Yangon, Myanmar along with 13 other songs from across the Asia Pacific Region.[4]

Participation overview

Table key

  Grand Prix

  Gold Award

  Silver Award

  Bronze Award

  Jury Award

Year	Entrant	Language	Song	English translation	Place	Award
2012	Bimblotica	Malayalam, English	"I'm a Girl"	–	Failed to qualify
	Mathur Lakshmi Keshava & Group	Sanskrit	"Vayam Atra Sanjataha Asmakam Punyam"	–	Failed to qualify
2014	Mangka Mayanglambam	Meithei	"Tamla Loibi Napom"	-	No awards issued
	Abhijith Kishen	English	"Be The Change"	–	Failed to qualify
2015	Peepal Tree	Hindi	"Nayi Khushi"	New Happiness	No awards issued
	Padavi Deshmukh	English	"Voice of Women"	–	Failed to qualify
2016	Thokchom Lansana Chanu[5]	English	"Creation"	–	No awards issued
	Vince Costa[6]	English	"Home Before Christmas"	–	Failed to qualify
2018	Akashlina Amin	Hindi	"Jhumur"	–	No awards issued
	Siddhartha BelMannu	Hindi	"Anireekshita"	–	No awards issued

See also

• India in the ABU TV Song Festival

References

1. Granger, Anthony. "ABU Radio Song Festival 2014: The Songs Are Presented". Eurovoix.com. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
2. Granger, Anthony. "ABU Radio Song Festival: 12 Finalists Announced". Eurovoix.com. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
3. Granger, Anthony. "ARSF'15: Maldives Debut & First Songs Revealed". Eurovoix.com. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
4. Granger, Anthony. "ARSF'15: 14 Songs Selected For The ABU Radio Song Festival". Eurovoix.com. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
5. "ABU Radio Song Festival 2016". abu.org.my. Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union. 25 April 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
6. Granger, Anthony. "ABU Radio Song Festival'16: 14 Songs Selected To Participate". Eurovoix-World.com. Eurovoix World. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2016.