"It was an anti-imperialist cry... Vande Mataram had gripped me, and when I first heard it sung, it enthralled me. I a…"

"The supreme service of Bankim [Chandra Chatterji] to his nation was that he gave us the vision of our Mother.... It i…"

"We used the Mantra Bande Mataram with all our heart and soul, and so long as we used and lived it, relied upon its st…"

"And Bose's tragedy came to serve this turncoat (Nehru) in yet another context. He hated India's hallowed national bat…"

"A most telling instance in point is the one relating to Vande Mataram. That celebrated song first appeared in the his…"

"“First of all it has to be remembered that no formal national anthem has been adopted by the Congress at any time. It…"

"“Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore once said that Bankim Chandra’s ‘Anandmath’ is not just a novel. It is a dream of an ind…"

"You would, my Arabella, be enraptured at the extreme neatness of even the meanest attendant; but besides the beauty a…"

"Cleanliness was literally next to godliness in India; hygiene was not, as Anatole France thought it, la seule morale,…"

"A surprising spirit of cleanliness is to be observed among the Hindoos: the streets of their villages are commonly sw…"