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We in Pakistan are lucky that the issue remains of peripheral interest but Vande Mataram�s threatening message keeps stalking the psyche of the Indian Muslims, constantly reminding them of the threat of being swamped over by a strident Hindu nationalism.
Tags: Vande Mataram, All India National Congress, Indian National Congress, Indian Republic, Muslim League, Muslims, Durga, Hindu, Pakistan, Karāchi, Indian culture, Bharat Mata, Anandamath, Religion Belief, National symbols of India, Islam in India, Bengali renaissance
Union minister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor, who has a penchant for controversy, has called for making the national song, 'Vande Mataram', optional. "We've had an unseemly controversy in north about the national song, Vande Mataram. I've...
Tags: Vande Mataram, national song, India, Thiruvananthapuram, Shashi Tharoor, Tharoor, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Trivandrum, Religion Belief, Indian culture, Malayali people
The fatwa against Vande Mataram is ridiculous," he said at a book launch function here last night. "People who cannot recognise their mother cannot recognize their god," he said, adding "the song lifted spirits of lakhs of Indians during the Independence...
Tags: India, Mumbai, Urdu, Couplet, Khalish Dehlavi, Poetic form, Vande Mataram, Religion Belief
by Lhadon Tethong and Tenzin Choeying Tibetans across India and around the world this week applauded the Indian government’s decision to allow the Dalai Lama to visit Arunachal Pradesh in the face of Chinese opposition.
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He said efforts should be made to clear the controversy over the song once and for all. "Getting a correct and authentic tarjuma of Vande Mataram in Urdu is the best option as it will help the Muslims decide, whether they want to recite the national...
Tags: Vande Mataram, India, Deoband, All India Shia Personal Law Board, Indian culture, Islam in India, Religion Belief, Salman Khurshid, Sachar Committee, Indian Muslims
Maulana Mirza Mohammed Athar faxed a request to the President Prathiba Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to translate the national song ‘‘to help the confused community arrive at a decision’’. ‘‘The conflict over singing of Vande Matram triggered...
Tags: India, Lucknow, Indian Muslims, Politics, Islam in India, All India Shia Personal Law Board, Vande Mataram, Religion Belief
Gujarat�s first Muslim Director General of Police, SS Khandwawala, has urged Muslims to sing Vande Mataram, saying it�s not un-Islamic to do so. He cited his personal example to make his point. �I give a salaam to my mother everyday before I leave home...
Tags: Muslims, singing vande, Islam, India, New Delhi, Muslim, National symbols of India, Indian culture, Vande Mataram, Religion Belief
Who is forcing the Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Hind to sing Vande Mataram?...I don’t understand the business of passing a resolution against singing the national song. Not that I agree with these people for a moment, but I must accept that I am aware of the historical...
Tags: Vande Mataram, national song, singing vande
International general secretary of the VHP, Praveen Togadia reacted sharply against the adoption of the resolution here on Friday, while addressing a press conference. He said, "Vande Mataram is the national song adopted in the Indian Constitution and...
Tags: Vande Mataram, Muslims, national song, Congress
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has disclosed that the new BJP President will be someone from outside Delhi and the process has begun. "Yes the new leadership will be someone other than these four (Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Venkaiah Naidu and Ananth Kumar).
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