The story behind India’s national song 'Vande Mataram'

Written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in the 1870s, Vande Mataram evolved from a literary poem into a powerful symbol of India ...

National Song

The song became a slogan during the Swadeshi Movement of 1905-08 and became deeply associated with the freedom struggle. Victor Dasgupta November 10, 2025 1:50 PM IST Bose will be leading the 'Vande ...

Groundhog Punxsutawney Phil will predict winter's end or 6 more weeks of cold

Punxsutawney Phil, the legendary groundhog that lives in a tree stump in rural Pennsylvania, has issued the most highly ...

47 of the best albums in history that weren't nominated for album of the year at the Grammys

Award shows are bound to get stuff wrong, but a shocking number of masterpieces were ignored by the Grammys in the album of ...

‘Vande Mataram and Jana Gana Mana are two different ideas of India’: Carnatic classical vocalist TM Krishna on decoding India’s national symbols in his new book

Decoding a Nation’s Symbols (Westland), TM Krishna explains how India’s national symbols are metaphors for a nation’s ...