Vande Mataram has weathered a string of challenges and criticisms in 150 years to become the national song by popular choice.

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 ...

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

After the global hit Ve Haaniyaan, Ravie Dubey and Sargun Mehta return with Fanaa Karr De, a soulful romantic track shot in Paris under their label Dreamiyata Music.

BJPs Rajya Sabha MP Ghanshyam Tiwari on Saturday alleged that the Congress had betrayed the soul of the nation when it truncated the national song Vande Mataram to appease a section of the ...

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 ...

Durga Jasraj pays heartfelt tribute to cousin, actress-singer Sulakshana Pandit, calling the late actress-singer the first star of their family. | One of India's leading Digital News Agency offering ...