As India celebrates 150 years of Vande Mataram, many are revisiting the enduring question — how is the National Song different from the National Anthem, and why does India have both? India marks 150 ...

Kharge also pointed out that Rabindranath Tagore penned the stanza, Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata, in 1911. It is the same stanza that later became India’s national anthem. A Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) ...

BJP MP and former Karnataka Assembly Speaker Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri has mistakenly claimed that the national anthem, Jana Gana Mana, was written to welcome the British and that there was a chorus to ...