The Ahmedabad based couple, who won the `Sanskriti Award 2005 for outstanding social achievement` recently, say that choosing songs as a medium was not their "conscious decision."

"We had seen such performances in our childhood and we had ideas to express," he says.

"We had developed a keen interest in using songs as a way to take the findings of our field experiences and the ground realities to people," adds Charul.

"Most of the time people only talk about different issues or violence be it social or religious and leave the task of improving the situation to others.

"We through our performance -- which is a mixture of commentary, story and songs -- create social awareness and try to put across the message to people to think how they can improve the situation, " she says.

The Loknaad team, which has performed for audiences in rural and urban areas, schools, citizen fora, for farmers and tribals is of the opinion that definition of violence is getting "narrower" day by day.

"People only react to social and religious violence. But there are different types of violence happening everyday around us which go unnoticed," says Charul.