FAQ

Not at all! All rights remain with the respective owners. ISBSC claims no rights to any songs submitted for the contest.

ISBSC can only be entered by emailing us your song(s) in MP3 format to sanatansangeet.info@gmail.com, and paying the applicable fees ($10US per entry) by UPI (from within India) or PayPal (outside of India) based on how many categories you enter into.

ISBSC is the abbreviation for International Sanatan Bhakti Sangeet Competition. Simply speaking, Sanatan Bhakti Sangeet is an all encompassing genre used to refer to any devotional music forms indigenous to Bharat’s Sanatani heritage, i.e. directed towards Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain and other inherent Sanatan (eternal) indigenous Ishwars, Bhagwans, Devtas, Devis etc. such as but not limited to Shri Brahma, Shri Vishnu, Shri Shiv, Shri Rama, Shri Krishna, Durga Mata, Lakshmi Mata, Saraswati Mata, Gayatri Mata and other Devis, Sikh Gurus (the ten Gurus from Shri Guru Nanak to Shri Guru Govind Singh), 24 Jain Tirthankars (Bhagwan Shri Mahavir and his predecessors) etc., composed and sung in any of the indigenous Bharteey languages from North, South, East, West or Central regions of Bharat such as but not limited to Sanskrit, Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Rajasthani, Marathi, Khadi Boli, Bhojpuri, Maithili, Odiya, Bangla, Assamese, Manipuri, Chhattisgarhi, Telugu, Kannada, Malayali, Tamil or any other indigenous language native to or evolved from native Bharteey languages.

One winner from each of the six (6) categories will get a cash reward. Two runner ups from each category will receive honourable mentions. All winners and runner ups will get their songs featured on social media platforms and on partner media portals.

ISBSC entries will be judged by well known specialists and expert musicians from respective genres, so that complete justice is done to each entry, irrespective of language or genre or age group.

Although the sound quality of submitted recording will play an important role in whether the judges are able to listen to it, the judgement will be done solely on the basis of merit of the submitted entry, i.e. its melody, rendering, control over Sur, Taal, Laya, Bhaav (Expressions), Volume control, Uchharan (Diction), Word spacing and overall presentation, and not on the basis of sound quality.

One winner from each of the six (6) categories will get a cash reward. Two runner ups from each category will receive honourable mentions. All winners and runner ups will get their songs featured on social media platforms and on partner media portals.