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Vande Mataram - a beautiful version composed by Pannalal Ghosh from Phani Mazumdar's Aandolan (1951) - One of the earlier Kishore Kumar starrer - sung by Manna Dey, Sudha Malhotra, Parul Ghosh This significant film was kind of a "Discovery of India aka Bharat Ek Khoj" of its time...

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The attempt to portray Vande Mataram as exclusionary or unconstitutional is intellectually dishonest and historically selective. First, legally and constitutionally, Vande Mataram enjoys an honoured place in India’s national life. The Constituent Assembly did not reject it. On 24 January 1950, the Assembly adopted Jana Gana Mana as the National Anthem while explicitly according Vande Mataram equal respect and status as the National Song because of its historic role in India’s freedom struggle. To suggest that India’s constitutional founders “rejected” Vande Mataram is factually incorrect. Second, the argument that Vande Mataram is merely an ode to a goddess deliberately ignores the civilisational context of Bharat. Across Indian traditions, the motherland has long been personified as “Bharat Mata”, not as a sectarian deity, but as a cultural and emotional expression of devotion to the nation. Nations across the world employ symbolism, allegory, and personification. Britannia represents Britain, Marianne represents France, Mother Russia represents Russia. India’s cultural symbolism cannot be selectively delegitimised simply because it emerges from Indic civilisation. Third, reducing Rishi Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay to caricatures about his alleged views while ignoring the historical role of Vande Mataram is an exercise in ideological revisionism. The song became the rallying cry of India’s anti-colonial movement. Countless freedom fighters marched to the gallows chanting Vande Mataram. Revolutionaries, reformers, and patriots across regions embraced it as a symbol of resistance against British rule. Its emotional power in the national movement cannot be erased by retrospective ideological filters. Fourth, invoking the Preamble and Article 1 to deny the legitimacy of civilisational nationalism misunderstands India itself. The Constitution begins with “We, the People” because sovereignty resides in the people, not because India must become culturally rootless or severed from its ancient civilisational identity. The phrase “India, that is Bharat” itself acknowledges continuity between the modern republic and an older civilisational consciousness. Constitutional nationalism and civilisational identity are complementary, not contradictory. Fifth, the rejection of amendments invoking God or goddess in the Constituent Assembly affirmed that the Indian State would not establish an official religion. It did not require India to abandon its civilisational ethos, cultural memory, or spiritual vocabulary. Secularism in India was never meant to mean hostility toward indigenous traditions or the erasure of majority cultural symbols from public life. Finally, the claim that “religion ≠ nation” is a false binary in the Indian context. India is not a theocratic state, nor does nationalism here depend on adherence to any one faith. But India is undeniably a civilisation shaped by millennia of Indic thought, traditions, symbols, and philosophies. Respecting Vande Mataram does not make India less constitutional, less democratic, or less inclusive. It simply acknowledges the cultural soul that animated the freedom struggle and continues to inspire millions. India belongs equally to all its citizens. But India’s civilisational heritage also belongs equally to all its citizens and Vande Mataram is an inseparable part of that heritage.

Amit Malviya

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To every Bharatiya whose heart beats for Bharat Mata. As the Modi government issues fresh guidelines mandating the full rendition of Rishi Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s immortal and soul-stirring composition, Vande Mataram, India’s National Song, at designated official functions, I, as a proud citizen of Bharat, extend my deepest respect, sincere affection, and heartfelt greetings to my fellow citizens who identify themselves as Bharatiya above everything else. Vande Mataram is not just our National Song but the very pulse of Bharat. It is not merely an artefact of the past but the foundation of Bharat’s glorious future. Just as Maa Durga’s fury against adharma manifested as Maa Kali and annihilated Raktabeej’s oppression, Rishi Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s anger against the British, after being insulted and attacked in Berhampore despite serving as Deputy Collector because he was a Bharatiya with dignity, became the mother-seed of Vande Mataram. Rishi Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s stay at Lalgola Palace, amid the sylvan beauty of Bengal, became a cloistered monastery for his meditation on nation, nationhood, and nationalism. From that meditation was born the hymn to Bharat Mata that reawakened Bharat Shakti and triggered the realisation of our nation’s civilisational identity. From its first publication in Bangadarshan, the literary journal Rishi Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay edited, on 7 November 1875; to its inclusion in Anandamath, published in 1882; to Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore’s rendition of the hymn at the Calcutta session of the Congress in 1896; to the prabhat pheris that marked the uprising against Banga Bhanga, the partition of Bengal in 1905; to Bhikaji Cama’s incorporation of the two magical words in the 1907 version of the Tricolour—Vande Mataram became what Sri Aurobindo described as the “Mantra of Bharat.” For countless freedom fighters of Bengal, from revolutionaries like Khudiram Bose and Kanailal Dutta to the moderates, Vande Mataram represented a shared obeisance to Bharat Mata. It was the power that fuelled the surge of nationalism and pride; it was the roar of the famous trio Lal-Bal-Pal, who used these two words to mobilise the masses. Matangini Hazra, who became the face of the rising tide of nationalist fervour, faced death at the hands of the British colonial police chanting the two immortal words—Vande Mataram. During the freedom movement, newspapers flew flags on their mastheads emblazoned with these sacred words, which remind us of our loyalty to our nation and our duty towards Bharat Mata, who has nurtured us and given us our identity as a civilisational nation. Let us not reduce this song to an annual hashtag or a ceremonial chorus. Vande Mataram runs through the veins of every Bharatiya. It is our inspiration, our motivation, the core of our identity. It is the soul of Bharat Mata, the land we bow to. Vande Mataram.

Amit Malviya

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