Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Great Regulars: A National Anthem? or a National song?

or a Cultural Song, call it what you will. This great song was created by 'Akshay Navami' Bankimchandra Chatterjee (1838-94) on Sunday, 7th November 1875 at his residence in Kantalpada, in Naihati village, which is just a few miles away from Calcutta. The song is now 131 years old. It is probably the only Indian song that is still widely popular all over India, and musicians still want to sing it again and again, and keep composing new tunes for it.

from V Sundaram: News Today: Vande Mataram in recorded song, fable and legend

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