Earth Anthem is a song by Indian poet and diplomat Abhay Kumar, recorded in eight languages including all official languages of the United Nations, namely Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish, as well as Hindi and Nepali. It is intended to be an anthem for the planet Earth.
It was launched in June 2013 on the occasion of the World Environment Day by Kapil Sibal and Shashi Tharoor, then Union Ministers of India, at a function organized by the Indian Council of Cultural Relations in New Delhi. It is supported by the global organization Habitat For Humanity.
India's Central Board of Secondary Education or CBSE has used it for educational purposes. Earth Anthem has also been used by partner schools of British Council Schools Online, Regent School, Abuja, Assam Valley School, Euro School, Kathmandu and Loreto Day School, Kolkata among others.
The 3rd Nepal-Africa Film Festival opened in Kathmandu, Nepal with the screening of the song. Hollywood actor Robert Lin has called the song a “great concept and certainly a forever theme to be written and sung about.” Indian film-maker Shyam Benegal has called multi-language lyrics extremely inspiring. The US Consul General Jennifer McIntyre has called Kumar's Earth Anthem a significant contribution to Earth Day and truly an anthem for the Earth. Academy Award winner Hollywood director Jeffrey D. Brown called it a joyous celebration of common humanity.