150 Years of Vande Mataram: The Song That Awakened a Nation
As India commemorates 150 years of “Vande Mataram”, the nation pauses to reflect on a song that did far more than inspire music and poetry. Written in 1876 by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Vande Mataram became the emotional backbone of India’s freedom movement. It transformed the idea of the motherland into a living, breathing symbol of …