Songs Of Freedom: Tagore Publicly Sang Vande Mataram For The First Time On This Day In 1896
Songs were the marching tune for those who participated in the freedom struggle. On this day in 1896, Rabindranath Tagore publicly sang Vande Mataram for the first time at the Calcutta Congress Session. Seeing the incendiary potential of the slogan, the British banned the utterance of the poem in public forums. Here are other freedom struggle songs that became the clarion call for throwing out the British