Vande Mataram – Version adopted by Congress, 1905 In Devanagari script वन्दे मातरम् सुजलां सुफलां मलयजशीतलाम् शस्यश्यामलां मातरम् | शुभ्र ज्योत्स्ना पुलकित यामिनीम् फुल्ल कुसुमित द्रुमदलशोभिनीम्, सुहासिनीं सुमधुर भाषिणीम् सुखदां वरदां मातरम् ||

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While the whole nation intensely debates over the singing of Vande Mataram on September 7, an eminent Sanskrit scholar and former director of M S University’s Oriental Institute Rajendra Nanavati has given a new twist to the controversy by claiming that Vande Mataram was never announced as India’s national song.

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