“Vande Mataram”, the national song tugging at the heartstrings of many an Indian, has stirred heated debates every few years over its “secular” or “anti-Islamic” nature and the role it played in India ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take part in a Lok Sabha discussion to mark 150 years of 'Vande Mataram' - the song written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in November 1875 and which quickly became a ...
Some stanzas of “Vande Mataram” refer to Hindu goddesses. India’s religious minorities say it goes against their monotheist beliefs. Activists of the Nagaland unit of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata ...