MUMBAI: Forty years on and 11 billion miles from earth in the huge vastness of space there is the sound of India. Its twin, Voyager-1, launched on September 5, 1977, also carries a similar disc.The Indian music was chosen by a Nasa-appointed committee chaired by Carl Sagan . "He writes that Kesarbai made this recording when she was past 70. Apart from the music, the record also carries a message in Hindi which when translated means: "We are citizens of earth: We are greeting you." The other Indian languages represented in the record are Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Oriya, Telugu and Urdu.

Source: Times of India August 07, 2017 03:22 UTC