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Gandhi’s Vision of the Song Vande Mataram is Inclusive, Not Divisive, Like Now

BJP and Modi should be mindful that it was Tagore who sang it in the 1896 session of the Congress in Calcutta organised under ...
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How ‘Jana Gana Mana’ was chosen over other contenders (and why Tagore may not have approved)

Nehru recollected in Tagore’s centenary year that he had requested the latter, a little before his death, to compose a national anthem for a new India. The poet had partly agreed. What is very ...