150 Years of the National Song Vande Mataram
PM Releases Postage Stamp and Coin
The Sunday Mail
New Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a year-long commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the national song Vande Mataram at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi on Friday. He also released a commemorative stamp and coin on the occasion. The Vande Mataram website was also launched.
On this occasion, PM Modi said, “The words ‘Vande Mataram’ are a mantra, an energy, a dream, a resolution. Vande Mataram is a devotion to Mother India. It is an adoration of Mother India. Vande Mataram, these words take us back in history. It fills our present with new confidence and gives our future the hope that there is no resolution that cannot be accomplished, no goal that we Indians cannot achieve.”
This event, from November 7, 2025, to November 7, 2026, marks the formal launch of the year-long nationwide commemoration of the composition of the national song, Vande Mataram, to mark 150 years since the creation of this timeless composition. This national song inspired India’s freedom movement and has always awakened national pride and unity.
150 Years of the Composition of the Song Vande Mataram
The year 2025 marks 150 years since the composition of the song Vande Mataram. The national song, Vande Mataram, composed by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, was written on November 7, 1875, on the auspicious occasion of Akshaya Navami. Vande Mataram was first published in the literary magazine Bangadarshan as an excerpt from his novel Anandamath. Describing the motherland as a symbol of strength, prosperity, and divinity, the song gave poetic expression to India’s awakening sense of unity and self-respect. The song soon became an everlasting symbol of devotion to the nation.
