{"id":348791,"date":"2025-10-28T12:06:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T06:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=348791"},"modified":"2025-10-28T12:06:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T06:36:44","slug":"national-song-vande-mataram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-song-vande-mataram\/","title":{"rendered":"National Song (Vande Mataram)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News<\/strong>&#8211; Prime Minister urged citizens to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the National Song by upholding and passing on its values to future generations.<\/p>\n<h2>About National Song (Vande Mataram)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Composition<\/strong>: Vande Mataram was originally composed in Sanskrit by<em> Bankimchandra Chatterjee<\/em> and included in his novel <em>Anand Math (1882).<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance<\/strong>: It enjoys a status equal to that of the National Anthem, Jana-Gana-Mana, symbolizing India\u2019s freedom struggle and national unity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>First Sung<\/strong>: The song was first sung at the <em>1896 session of the Indian National Congress in Calcutta<\/em> by <em>Rabindranath Tagore.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Adoption<\/strong>: On <em>24 January 1950<\/em>, the Constituent Assembly officially adopted it as the National Song of India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Constitutional Aspect<\/strong>: Although <em>Article 51A(a)<\/em> of the Constitution enjoins citizens to respect the Constitution, its ideals and institutions, the National Flag, and the National Anthem, it does not make specific mention of the National Song.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News&#8211; Prime Minister urged citizens to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the National Song by upholding and passing on its values to future generations. About National Song (Vande Mataram) Composition: Vande Mataram was originally composed in Sanskrit by Bankimchandra Chatterjee and included in his novel Anand Math (1882). Significance: It enjoys a status equal to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-song-vande-mataram\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">National Song (Vande Mataram)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,11212,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-348791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-history-and-art-culture-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}