This year India will be celebrating the 72nd Independence Day. Recently, a piano presentation of the anthem ‘Jana Gana Mana’ played by Mumbai-based pianist Shayan Italia went viral. The video, which was posted on July 29, has managed to garner quite some attention online and at present has over 72 million views. The video features Italia playing the piano that was gifted to him by his mother as a goodbye […]
The Supreme Court has asked the Centre to come up guidelines to regulate the playing of the National Anthem in public places, including movie theatres. This now places the onus on the government to decide whether it should be mandatory for people to stand for the National Anthem or not. The top court’s direction to the Centre came even as it refused to change its earlier order that made it […]
As the loudspeaker begins creaking at 7.45am, the people of Jammikunta, all 35,000 of them, get set to drop whatever they’re doing to stand still in a few minutes time. They get down from their bikes if they’re in the middle of the road, they put their spoons and coffee mugs down if they’re in the middle of breakfast, they pretty much shut down all other human activity, we presume, […]
Batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar said that singing the national anthem in front of a packed Wankhede Stadium before the 2011 World Cup final is the “proudest feeling” he has ever had in his life. “But it (singing of national anthem) goes to a different level altogether, when you are playing against Pakistan in 2003 World Cup (in Centurion), standing inside the stadium, in the middle of the group, with 60,000 […]
In wake of the recent controversy about a family being dragged out of a movie theatre for not standing up for the National Anthem, the real question remains unanswered. How many of us really know our National Anthem well? Here are a few facts of the National Anthem that will blow your mind False myth There was a false myth that Jana Gana Mana was written and composed by Rabindranath […]
