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SPICMACAY stands for: “Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth”. It is a voluntary organization, spread across the nation. It aims to disseminate the beauty, grace and wisdom embodied in the traditional and classical Indian art forms among the youth of the nation with a hope that  it will become an integral part of their lives,dreams and aspirations.

The movement is being run by the combined efforts of the thousands of volunteers spread across the globe. It is this rare spirit of selfless volunteerism that has kept this 30-year old organization alive, and young as ever.

 Though it is dutiful to the propagation of Indian culture and music among the people, that is not quite what forms its deep core.Dr. Kiran Seth, the inspirational founder and Chairman of SPICMACAY, puts it across as“The basic idea (of SPICMACAY) is not to promote any classical music, that’s not the basic idea. Yes, classical music is being promoted; it’s wonderful; that’s one of the wonderful horses of our heritage. But, what I find while teaching here and meeting young people, and looking at the education system; some of us felt that there were four aspects which were missing in the system. One was, there’s practically nothing that is inspiring, very little of subtlety, very little of abstraction, and very little respect for the mystical. The heritage encompasses all these four very nicely. So let’s give them the opportunity to get inspired by whichever road is most suited to them.”