Mother India
India
is the mother
for a man
of sensitive thought.
India
is the land of piece for a man of viper
thought.
India is the
capital of the guardian angels
Where various
doctrines become time’s best jewels?
India
is the cultural
capital
Where sangam cultures exhume with the passage of time?
India
is the Yoga
capital
Where shaping the soul becomes time’s best jewel?
India is the
religious capital
Where various religions blossom together as its
citadel?
India is a land of Tom, Dick and Harry
Where the luminary turns the century for the success story of
Mary?
Indianness was the mission of Mahatma like
bird of passage
Who lived and died for the sake of mother
India.
Map of India -- Sunil Bambal
A sangam is the confluence of 2 or more rivers. Sangakalam (the Sangam period) was the earliest period of south Indian history, lasting from the 5th century BCE until about the arrival of Christianity in the 3rd century. The Sangams (gatherings, "koodal") were assemblies that evaluated literary works. According to Tamil legend there were 3 Sangam periods, but Muthaṟchanga paruvam (the Head Sangam period) of Tamilakam, which lasted for 4,440 years under the patronage of 89 kings of the Pandya dynasty, which had 549 members including deities such as Shiva the creator of the universe, Kubera the god of wealth, and Murugan the god of war, and the poet sage Agastya, and for whom 4,449 poets composed, and the Middle Sangam, which lasted for 3,700 years under the patronage of 59 Pandyan kings, which had 49 members for whom 1,700 poets composed, were both held in cities that were "taken by the sea." The Moondram Sangam, the 3rd one, operated on the Sacred Pond of Golden Lotuses in Madurai for 1,850 years under 49 Pandyan kings; it had 449 participating poets.
ReplyDeleteBharat mata ("Mother India"), the personification of the nation as a mother goddess, is usually depicted as a woman clad in a saffron sari holding the country's flag and sometimes accompanied by a lion. But it is of relatively recent origin, associated with the roots of the independence movement in the late 19th century. Bhudeb Mukhopadhyay's satirical short story "Unabimsa Purana" (The 19th Purana) may have been the iconic source in 1866, but Kiran Chandra Bannerjee's 1873 play "Bharat Mata" directly associated the image with a victorious rebellion against the British. In 1882 Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay wrote the novel "Anandamath" (The Abbey of Bliss), based on the late-18th-century Sannyasi Rebellion against British taxes, the 1st Bengali revolt, which included the poem "Vande Mataram" (I bow to thee, Mother); it portrayed Bharat-Mata as 3 goddesses: What Mother Was (Jagaddhatri, the "Bearer of the World"), What Mother Has Become (Kali, the destroyer of evil forces), and What Mother Will Be (Durga the warrior goddess). Rabindranath Tagore composed a melody for it in 1896, and the British banned the novel and the song. Tagore's nephew Abanindranath Tagore's 1905 artistic representation of the figure became highly influential in her future renderings. In 1907, Bhikaiji Cama created the 1st version of India's national flag, which had "Vande Mataram" written on its middle band. In 1937 the song's 1st 2 stanzas became the country's national song, at the instigation of Tagore and Jawaharlal Nehru (later the 1st prime minister), and was officially adopted in 1950. Mahaatma Gandhi, the leader of the Indian independence movement, presided over the opening of he Bharat Mata temple in Varansi in 1936.
ReplyDeleteBharat mata ("Mother India"), the personification of the nation as a mother goddess, is usually depicted as a woman clad in a saffron sari holding the country's flag and sometimes accompanied by a lion. But it is of relatively recent origin, associated with the roots of the independence movement in the late 19th century. Bhudeb Mukhopadhyay's satirical short story "Unabimsa Purana" (The 19th Purana) may have been the iconic source in 1866, but Kiran Chandra Bannerjee's 1873 play "Bharat Mata" directly associated the image with a victorious rebellion against the British. In 1882 Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay wrote the novel "Anandamath" (The Abbey of Bliss), based on the late-18th-century Sannyasi Rebellion against British taxes, the 1st Bengali revolt, which included the poem "Vande Mataram" (I bow to thee, Mother); it portrayed Bharat-Mata as 3 goddesses: What Mother Was (Jagaddhatri, the "Bearer of the World"), What Mother Has Become (Kali, the destroyer of evil forces), and What Mother Will Be (Durga the warrior goddess). Rabindranath Tagore composed a melody for it in 1896, and the British banned the novel and the song. Tagore's nephew Abanindranath Tagore's 1905 artistic representation of the figure became highly influential in her future renderings. In 1907, Bhikaiji Cama created the 1st version of India's national flag, which had "Vande Mataram" written on its middle band. In 1937 the song's 1st 2 stanzas became the country's national song, at the instigation of Tagore and Jawaharlal Nehru (later the 1st prime minister), and was officially adopted in 1950. Mahaatma Gandhi, the leader of the Indian independence movement, presided over the opening of he Bharat Mata temple in Varansi in 1936, declaring it "a cosmopolitan platform for people of all religions, castes, and creeds" that wold promote "religious unity, peace, and love in the country."
ReplyDeleteBharat Mata at Jatiya Shaktipeeth, Kolkata
Bharat Mata at Jatiya Shaktipeeth, Kolkata
At Haridwar.