The writer has given a break to habitual Congress-bashing, by praising the leader of the opposition for indulging in a tame ...
Yes—by turning a 150-year history lesson into a BJP culture skirmish, blurring facts, reviving old communal lines, and ...
National songs or anthems are often imposed from above, in which case they tend to exclude the diversity of the masses they ...
Earlier, Vishal had criticized the parliamentary discourse, using irony to question why symbolic nationalism often dominates ...
While the BJP framed the discussion as a necessary reckoning with history and the freedom movement’s legacy, the Opposition ...
Long before Vande Mataram was elevated to the status of a national emblem, it was a distinctly Bengali cry of anguish.
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When Vande Mataram becomes ritual, who speaks for the land it imagined?
Repeated political battles over 'Vande Mataram' obscure the steady erosion of the clean air, water and nourishment of its people that the song celebrates.
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OPINION | Vande Mataram debate highlights the need for constitutional protection of national symbols
The standing of Vande Matram in the collective consciousness was never in doubt. There is a however a case to extend ...
From coastal Andhra Pradesh to Jallianwala Bagh in Punjab, from bonfires in UP to midnight pledges in Chennai and Lahore, ...
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.
The year 2025 marks 150 years of Vande Mataram, India’s National Song. Composed by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay on the ...
“Vande Mataram was composed at a time when, after the 1857 freedom struggle, the British Empire was unsettled and imposed ...
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