"The core of Vande Mataram is a hymn to goddess Durga: this is so plain that there can be no debate about it.... no Mussulman can be expected patriotically to worship the ten-handed deity as ‘Swadesh’ [the nation]." - Tagore in a letter to Bose. #VandeMatram
"This year many of the special [Durga] Puja numbers of our magazines have quoted verses from Vande Mataram – proof that the editors take the song to be a hymn to Durga." Tagore in a letter to Bose on #VandeMatram
"The novel Anandamath is a work of literature, and so the
song (Vande Mataram) is appropriate in it. But Parliament is a place of union for all religious groups, and there the song cannot be appropriate." - Tagore in a letter to Bose on #VandeMatram
song (Vande Mataram) is appropriate in it. But Parliament is a place of union for all religious groups, and there the song cannot be appropriate." - Tagore in a letter to Bose on #VandeMatram
Source - Letter number 314, Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore, edited by K. Datta and A. Robinson, Cambridge University Press
