The Carnatic vocalist and public intellectual argues that India must defend its founding symbols and also reimagine their ...

On February 11, the Union Home Ministry released fresh guidelines regarding the singing of Vande Mataram. The advisory states that the National Song should be performed before the National Anthem, ...

Vande Mataram and Jana Gana Mana played a powerful role in inspiring national sentiment during the freedom struggle.

Tagore wrote Jana Gana Mana in 1911. It was originally titled Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata. The full poem was sung publicly for the first time at the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress on ...