The national song of India, ‘Vande Mataram,’ marks its 150th anniversary today, i.e., November 7. The song was written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in the year 1875 to promote the national movement of ...
A few years ago, the musician Ali Sethi was driving through Punjab, behind a jingle truck—the long-haul trucks known in his native Pakistan for their filigreed paint designs—when he spotted a phrase ...