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Matter-of-Fact of the week #60:
Vande Mataram, India’s national song was penned by Bankim Chandra Chatterji and it first appeared in his 1882 novel Anandamath. The English translation of the novel was provided by Nares Chandra Sengupta and was published in 1906 as ‘The Abbey of Bliss’.