Bharat Mata

"Satyendranath's younger brother, Jyotirindranath's poem composed for the Mela the same year ('Rise! 0 rise! children of Bharat') returned to the theme of resistance by portraying Mother India where she is Sickly and withered, a body of skin and bones,While the mighty demons Subjection and Ignorance Suck her blood and wound her soul And selfish Disunity, the monstrous fiend Her fair body into fragments doth hack! ...Behold, the mother sits captive In ignorant darkness, with feet and hands shackled."

"Bhabananda replied, “We recognize no other mother. ‘One’s mother and birthland are greater than heaven itself.’ But we say that our birthland is our mother. We’ve no mothers, fathers, brothers, friends, no wives, children, houses, or homes. All we have is she who is rich in waters, rich in fruit, cooled with the southern airs, verdant with the harvest fair.”"