The Soul of a Nation
0(Sri Aurobindo has said, “India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she […]
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Vande Maataram in Pop Culture
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Although written as far back as 1882, Bankim Chandra’s ‘Vande Maataram’ (from his novel Anandamath) is very much part of […]
The Last Day of Raja Nandakumar
0(On the occasion of India’s Independence Day which falls on August 15th, we take a page from history which gives […]
Vande Mātaram in Music
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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee wrote Anandamath in 1882; while the novel itself was hugely popular, it was the song Vande Maataram […]
Quit India
0Bombay, 8 August 1942 The speech which Gandhi delivered at the commencement of the Quit India Movement on 8th August, […]
Vande Maataram in Film
0India’s National Song ‘Vande Maataram’ was written as part of a novel Anandamath by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in 1882. The […]
Hymn to the Mother
0(‘Bande Mataram’ was written as part of ‘Anandamath’ (1882), a novel by Bankim Chandra Chatterji. It caught the imagination of […]
To My Countrymen
0(A hundred years ago, India was like a raft in a rocky sea in the middle of a storm — […]
A Tryst with Destiny
0(The following speech by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was made on August 14th 1947 in New Delhi while introducing the pledge […]
A Dangerous Cult of Absolute Nonviolence
0In the 1940 presidential address at the Twenty-second Session of the Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha at Madurai, Savarkar criticizes Gandhi’s […]
The Boycott Celebration
0(A hundred years ago, India was like a raft in a rocky sea in the middle of a storm — […]
Towards Freedom
0(Lala Lajpat Rai had left India in 1913 and gave the following reason for his departure: ‘I began to suspect […]
The Work before Us
0(Swami Vivekananda, the warrior monk who took the world by storm starting with the 1893 Parliament of Religions in Chicago, […]
Bande Mataram – A Song Divine
0As for the recent controversy surrounding the national song of India, those who object may be right in voicing their […]
The Eternal Flame
0A recent release by the Hindi film industry(1) tackles an interesting subject where the lead protagonists, play a role within […]
Rise of India
0Mother India, when Thou rosest from the depths of oceans hoary, Love and joy burst forth unbounded, life acclaimed Thee […]
Ambassadors of…
0A school principal once said to her teenage students as they were leaving for their annual school trip – “Always […]
My Life is Yours
0Independence day came and went. Yet another one…and as always, we underwent the predictable ‘rituals’ that come along with […]
