In a democracy, symbols are sacred, but their interpretations, adoptions, and usage are human and therefore political.

For Debroop Chatterjee and his Prep friends, it took a month of practice to perfect their moves. The school seemed a happier place as they prepared for the festive season. The event was a cultural ...

Contemporary rulers of Bengal are silent on the 150th anniversary of 'Vande Mataram', which could have provided a platform for Mamata Banerjee to showcase "Bangla pride". The reasons that encumbered t ...

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath flags off the Rashtriya Ekta Yatra in the Kursi Assembly constituency to mark Sardar ...

Barabanki/Lucknow, November 11: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday asserted that no sect, religion, or caste can ever ...

Urging people to identify those who eagerly seek benefits from government schemes but refuse to sing ‘Vande Mataram’, the CM ...

"Our goal should be nation first. If the nation is one, we are one. Obstruction in the path of Vande Mataram is the biggest obstacle to national unity," he claimed.

This comes after BJP spokesperson CR Kesavan accused the Congress party of deliberately altering the national song Vande Mataram, claiming that stanzas praising Goddess Durga were removed in 1937 ...

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 ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that significant stanzas of the “Vande Mataram,” were removed in 1937, when it was adopted as India’s national song by the Congress, while the Congress reta ...