While the BJP framed the discussion as a necessary reckoning with history and the freedom movement’s legacy, the Opposition ...

PM Modi's tribute to the national song's 150th year in Parliament is a strategic bid to recast Bengal's cultural symbols and ...

A special parliamentary debate on 'Vande Mataram' has begun, tied to the song's 150th anniversary. While the government ...

Rajya Sabha–nominated MP Sudha Murty on Tuesday, 9 December, urged the Union government to make the national song Vande ...

PM Modi said Vande Mataram was a mantra which gave energy and showed the path for sacrifice during India's independence struggle. He said the British divided Bengal in 1905, but Vande Mataram stood ...

The recent parliamentary debate marking 150 years of Vande Mataram has ignited a fierce political skirmish, with the Congress ...

With the Ram temple built and Article 370 abrogated, the party appears to be expanding the ambit of its cultural politics, attempting to turn its long-held ideological positions into national debates.

Earlier, Vishal had criticized the parliamentary discourse, using irony to question why symbolic nationalism often dominates ...

The standing of Vande Matram in the collective consciousness was never in doubt. There is a however a case to extend ...

Long before Vande Mataram was elevated to the status of a national emblem, it was a distinctly Bengali cry of anguish.

The linkage between the partition of Vande Mataram and the Partition of India is not to be scoffed at. Even if the full song ...

From coastal Andhra Pradesh to Jallianwala Bagh in Punjab, from bonfires in UP to midnight pledges in Chennai and Lahore, ...