Vande Mataram, which translates to “Mother, I Bow to Thee”, was adopted as the national song of India in 1950. Rabindranath ...

The first public performance of Vande Mataram took place in 1896 at the Congress session in Calcutta, where Rabindranath ...

At the time of Independence, Darbhanga was one of the subcontinent’s most prosperous and better-managed administrative units, ...

The Congress’s logic for adopting only the first two stanzas for public singing was that the last four stanzas, with their references to goddesses and other Hindu religious motifs, would be difficult ...

One hopes, on the 150th anniversary of the song, a new meaning will emerge — one that comforts and unites everyone ...

India celebrates the 150th anniversary of Vande Mataram, the national song written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, which became ...

Karnataka BJP MP Vishveshwara Kageri said Jana Gana Mana was written to welcome British officials and suggested Vande Mataram should have been the national anthem. Priyank Kharge countered the claim, ...

PM Narendra Modi also lashed out against the Congress over the deletion of stanzas from the original poem during a Friday speech on the 150th anniversary of 'Vande Mataram' ...

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has called for introducing the collective singing of Vande Mataram across all ...

True tribute to Mualana Abul Kalam Azad lies not in ceremonial remembrance but in fostering the compassionate, united country ...

Beginning in 1905, Vande Mataram evolved into a powerful political slogan, but during the 1930s, its status came to be ...