Congress Radio
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Congress Radio, also known as Azad Radio, was an underground radio station that operated for about three months during the Quit India Movement of 1942, a movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi against th
Blitz newspaper clipping from 1946 showing Mehta's contributions to the underground radio station
Vande Mataram
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"Vande MÄtaram" is a poem that was adopted as the national song of the Republic of India in 1950. It was written in Sanskritised Bengali by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in the 1870s, and was first publis
Mahatma Gandhi supported the first two verses of Vande Mataram as a national song.
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A rare painting of Indian national song, Vande Mataram, published in 1923
Cover of a 1909 issue of the Tamil magazine Vijaya showing "Mother India" (Bharat Mata) with her diverse progeny and the rallying cry "Vande Mataram"