Nation

The year 2025 marks a defining milestone in India’s civilizational journey — 150 years of the national song Vande Mataram. Composed in 1875 by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, this song was far more than a literary creation. It was a weapon of words that sowed the seeds of Indian consciousness, identity, freedom, and nationhood. Vande Mataram was the anthem of awakening — a surge of faith that pierced through the darkness of colonial rule and kindled the dawn of independence.

Born in the political and social ferment of Bengal, the song soon became the voice of India’s soul. In 1882, through the novel Anandamath, it entered the public imagination as the spiritual core of national awakening. When Rabindranath Tagore first sang it publicly at the 1896 Calcutta Congress session, it becam

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