“If the many and the One be indeed the same Reality, then it is not all modes of worship alone, but equally all modes of work, all modes of struggle, all modes of creation, which are paths of realization. No distinction, henceforth, between sacred and secular. To labour is to[Read More…]
Tag: Vande Mataram
Jharkhand: BJP workers force Congress MLA to chant ‘Vande Mataram’
There seems to be a never-ending exchange of allegations and accusations between the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress in Jamtara in Jharkhand. BJP party workers on Wednesday night stopped Congress MLA, Irfan Ansari, and forced him to chant ‘Vande Mataram’ and ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’. The incident is[Read More…]
Singing Vande Mataram should be made mandatory by law: Uddhav Thackeray
Singing national Song, Vande Mataram should be made mandatory by the law, said Shiv Sena chief, Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday. “If you want to hoist the national flag of this country then you must sing the national song of the country. And singing national song should be made mandatory by[Read More…]
For Times Now managing editor, Vande Mataram is ‘real issue’ not death of 63 kids in Gorakhpur
Veteran journalist and Times Now’s managing editor, Navika Kumar has landed herself in a big trouble Friday night during a Newshour debate. The TV journalist has been condemned on social media after she made some ‘insensitive’ remark during a debate on Vande Mataram on late Friday evening. The journalist has[Read More…]
Watch: This Yogi minister who cannot sing one line of Vande Mataram
To mark the celebration of the Indian Independence Day, the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government has directed all madrassas (Islamic schools) to sing Vande Mataram and videograph the event. Ironically, the minister who had directed this order failed to sing a single line of the national song himself. In an[Read More…]
Not singing Vande Mataram doesn’t make anyone anti-national: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
Union minister, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has said that singing ‘Vande Mataram’ is a “matter of choice” and those refusing to sing it could not be called anti- nationals. “Singing Vande Mataram is absolutely an individual’s choice. Those who want to sing can sing it, those who don’t, may not. Not[Read More…]
Singing of Vande Mataram compulsory in TN schools, offices, says Madras HC
The Madras High Court on Tuesday made the singing of Vande Mataram in schools, government offices, private entities and industries compulsory in Tamil Nadu. Justice M V Muralidharan stated that schools must sing it at least once a week either on Monday or Friday, and offices should sing it at[Read More…]