Long before freedom came, India had already found her voice in a song — Vande Mataram, the eternal hymn that turned devotion into destiny. It was not merely composed; it was revealed, as if the spirit of the land itself spoke through Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay.

When these words first appeared in Anandamath in the late nineteenth century, they carried the pulse of a civilisation long suppressed yet unconquered. Through Vande Mataram, Bankim did not just imagine a free nation; he sanctified it. He gave the people of India not a slogan but a sacred incantation that would awaken their soul and ignite their courage.

Across the turbulent years that followed, Vande Mataram echoed through India’s heart — in the silent courage of revolutionaries, in the disciplined processions of freedom fighte

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