Bankim Chandra Chatterjee — the visionary mind behind “Vande Mataram.” His epic Anandamath, set during the Sanyasi Rebellion, ...

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

The song, which became the cry of our nation during the Independence movement, ‘Vande Mataram’, has now completed 150n years.

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

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

Indore (Madhya Pradesh): Celebrating 150 years of India’s national song Vande Mataram, noted historian Zafar Ansari from ...

Apart from the National Anthem, one song that echoes through our childhood and is sung in school assemblies is Vande Mataram.

A political firestorm has erupted over the national song, Vande Mataram, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress ...

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

Modi should fight on real issues — jobs, inequality, inflation, and foreign policy — not abuse Nehru or rewrite history, says ...