With 14 regional stations, over 3,000 employees, and an annual government allocation exceeding Tk200 crore, infrastructure remains vast. Yet listener engagement and popularity have plummeted, while ye ...

The Congress’s very public move in 1937 to limit the ‘Vande Mataram’ version sung in the mainstream shows how nationalism was ...

P olitics in West Bengal often revolves around the State’s cultural icons. Over the past few days, the two tallest names in ...

The BJP’s push to celebrate Vande Mataram’s 150th year reveals how history is rewritten to deepen communal fault lines and ...

As Bengal polls approach, BJP walks tightrope between Bankim’s song & Tagore’s legacy. 5 yrs after invoking Amar Sonar Bangla to woo Bengal, BJP on the defensive.

The poem, novel and song has had several political habitations. But circumstances had revised Gandhi and Nehru’s perspectives ...

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

Dr Sachchidanand Joshi“Mother, I bow to thee!Rich with thy hurrying streams,Bright with thy orchard gleams,Cool with the winds of delight,Dark fields waving, Mother of might,Mother free.Glory of moonl ...

August 14, 1943. She is an Indian playback singer who is popular for singing Hindi songs. She has also sung more than 2000 songs in Marathi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Assamese and Gujarati ...

The procession began at around 4:15pm from the Central Shaheed Minar premises and concluded at Noor Hossain Square after passing through Doel Chattar and the High Court area.

Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi inaugurated the year-long commemoration of 150 years of the National Song “Vande Mataram” in New Delhi ...

Bengal, the land that gave birth to Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s immortal hymn, seems to have politically distanced itself ...