Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” by Robert Hayden, reflects on what art can (and can’t) do in tumultuous times. Our critic A.O. Scott ...

Vande Mataram represents the soul of India's freedom struggle. However, its provocative use as a slogan at times made Mahatma ...

On November 7, 1875, Bengali author Bankim Chandra Chatterjee one of India's most influential 19th century thinkers wrote the ...

Known for praising the city with “big shoulders,” the beloved 1914 composition recently was recited in a ruling addressing ...

PM Narendra Modi also lashed out against the Congress over the deletion of stanzas from the original poem during a Friday speech on the 150th anniversary of 'Vande Mataram' ...

Christine V. Lao teaches writing at UP Diliman. She has practiced law and served as judicial staff head of the Supreme Court. Her first book, Musical Chairs: Stories, was a finalist for the 19th ...

For many, poetry is a form of self-expression, and pen and paper are a chance for escape and daydreams and everything in ...

A recent Facebook post by Cubadebate, encouraging participation in a poetry contest dedicated to Fidel Castro, has sparked a ...

Contemporary rulers of Bengal are silent on the 150th anniversary of 'Vande Mataram', which could have provided a platform for Mamata Banerjee to showcase "Bangla pride". The reasons that encumbered t ...

At an event to mark 150 years of Vande Mataram last week, Modi claimed that the song had been “broken and cut into pieces” ...

The Congress's very public move in 1937 to limit the 'Vande Mataram' version sung in the mainstream shows how nationalism was ...

Five minutes. One word. One chance. This is the challenge Adam Grabowski often poses to himself writing on a typewriter. You ...