Mantra Band

Mantra is a rock and roll band from Darjeeling, India. Formed in 2000, the band has produced many popular songs. Bir Gorkhali, Ekantama and Sanskriti, timi bina are some of these.

Mantra was initially a three men band with Praggya on lead guitars, Bishal on drums and Pravash on bass. After playing instrumentals at gigs for few months, they realized that they needed a vocalists and that is when Vaskar Dewan joined them. Later, Manish Thapa joined in as a keyboardist followed by Bidhan on the flute.

Name of band

The name Mantra was chosen for the band because they wanted something different than the conventional way of using English names for the bands and also for the good luck, as the term Mantra has holy connotation.

Inspiration

Inspired by the Nepali rock bands like Robin and The New Revolution, Mukti and Revival, 1974 AD, this Darjeeling based band believes that the Nepali rock music is getting better than before.