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National Anthem Truth Undiscovered
This is interesting......
"Jana Gana Mana" - Just a thought for the National Anthem! How well do you know about it?
I have always wondered who is the " adhinayak"and"bharat bhagya vidhata",whose praise we are singing.. I thought might be Motherland India ! Our current National Anthem "Jana Gana Mana"is sung throughout the country.
Did you know the following about our national anthem, I didn't.
To begin with, India 's national anthem, Jana Gana Mana Adhinayaka, was written by Rabindranath Tagore in honor of King George V and the Queen of England when they visited India in 1919. To honor their visit Pandit Motilal Nehru had the five stanzas included , which are in praise of the King and Queen.(And most of us think it is in the praise of our great motherland!!!)
In the original Bengali verses only those provinces that were under British rule,i.e . Punjab, Sindh,Gujarat ,Maratha etc. were mentioned.
None of the princely states were recognized which are integral parts of India now Kashmir, Rajasthan, Andhra, Mysore or Kerala.
Neither the Indian Ocean nor the Arabian Sea was included, since they were directly under Portuguese rule at that time.
The Jana Gana Mana Adhinayaka implies that King George V is the lord of the masses and Bharata Bhagya Vidhata is "the bestower of good fortune".
Following is a translation of the five stanzas that glorify the King: First stanza: (Indian) People wake up remembering your good name and ask for your blessings and they sing your glories. (Tava shubha name jaage; tava shubha aashish maage, gaaye tava jaya gaatha)
Second stanza :Around your throne people of all religions come and give their love and anxiously wait to hear your kind words.
Third stanza: Praise to the King for being the charioteer, for leading the ancient travelers beyond misery.
Fourth stanza :Drowned in the deep ignorance and suffering, poverty-stricken, unconscious country?
Waiting for the wink of your eye and your mother's (the Queen's) true protection.
Fifth stanza : In your compassionate plans, the sleeping Bharat ( India ) will wake up. We bow down to your feet O' Queen, and glory to Rajeshwara (the King).
This whole poem does not indicate any love for the Motherland but depicts a bleak picture. When you sing
Jana Gana Mana Adhinayaka, whom are you glorifying? Certainly not the Motherland. Is it God? The poem does not indicate that.
It is time now to understand the original purpose and the implication of this, rather than blindly sing as has been done the past fifty years.
Nehru chose the present national anthem as opposed to Vande Mataram because he thought that it would be easier for the band to play!!!
It was an absurd reason but Today for that matter bands have advanced and they can very well play any music. So they can as well play Vande Mataram, which is a far better composition in praise of our Dear Motherland India.
Wake up, it's high time! Shouldn't Vande Mataram be our National Anthem. Come Join together to put Vande Mataram as our National Anthem.
(5) Comments
Indeed nice information which should make every proud Indian think about it...
A Suggestion: source of the given information should have been mentioned.
As mentioned by the author in the beginning, she was also unaware of these facts. After reading the complete article this obvious question struck my mind - "How did the author gather these facts? Or the author studied the anthem herself to derive the meaning?"
its all crap........dudette u need 2 go 2 da museum of indian history,kolkata
u'll get better info........
n as my frnd abov mentiond.........metion ur source
coz i can also say lochness monster exists but u need 2 prove it.....
hope ur nxt article keeps these facts in mind
CHEERS!!!
Hey dudes,
Both you guys are blind patriots.
Hellooooooooo. This article is atleast 5 years old. Though I don't know the source but its very evident from the fact that all that is mentioned in the article is very logical.
If you pay a close attention and if you have a good hold on hindi and sanskrit you can easily verify the facts.
Please don't follow patriotism blindly. It will only push India towards darkness.
As far as source is concerned the author will be afraid to reveal the identity for obvious reasons. She or he will become a easy target for another political agenda and the whole matter wil be done "Rafa dafa".
This is absolutely true, why is Sind included in our National Anthem, Sind is a River in Pakistan....
JL Nehru made is as our National Anthem despite of knowing the fact.....its also known fact that he had an affair with one of the British Lady.....
In my school i remember, there were 4 paragraphs of the National Anthem (Jana gana man). This was thought by one of our clas teacher who was a bengali. I am trying to find the lyrics of the same but in vain.