At a meeting in Lucknow on 15 October 1937, Muhammad Ali Jinnah denounced the song, arguing it contained references to Hindu goddesses like Durga and Lakshmi and was therefore incompatible with Muslim ...
To say that saying Vande Mataram (Salutations, O’ Mother) evokes the imagery of idol worship is the kind of convoluted reasoning that defies common sense. Furthermore, to emphasise that the hostility ...
National songs or anthems are often imposed from above, in which case they tend to exclude the diversity of the masses they ...
BJP thrives on identity issues. It uses these issues to polarize the society and to reap electoral benefits from that. So far ...
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Muslim objections to Vande Mataram are about faith, not rejection of India
Ibn Khaldun Bharati’s core claim—that Muslim resistance to ‘Vande Mataram’ reflects an unwillingness to merge into an ...
Retired Judge of the Madras High Court, K Chandru writes: the enforced debate in Parliament by the RSS-driven National Democratic Alliance (NDA) seeks to create a controversy over Vande Mataram ...
The BJP thrives on identity issues. It deploys them to polarise society and reap electoral benefits. From the Babri ...
Vande Mataram was shortened to its first two stanzas to promote national unity and address communal sensitivities. The full version remains preserved in literature, while the adopted version continues ...
The controversy over Vande Mataram made Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose turn in 1937 to the only person they felt had the ...
The Indian freedom struggle was inherently multi-religious, multilingual, and multi-ethnic, with women and men participating across communities to forge a united nation. While the Muslim League ...
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