Jana Gana Mana, our National Anthem, was first sung on this day at the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress. The anthem is the first verse of the song Bharata Bhagya Vidhata, a Brahmo hymn composed by Rabindranath Tagore.
Jana Gana Mana was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India as the National Anthem on January 24, 1950.
Bharata Bhagya Vidhata, written in five verses, was first published in the Brahmo community journal Tatwabodhini Patrika. The song is a lyrical evocation of India, with its several different geographies, as a entity. Bharata Bhagya Vidhata.
Subhas Chandra Bose chose Jana Gana Mana to be sung at the founding meeting of the German-Indian Society on September 11, 1942, at Hotel Atlantic in Hamburg, by the Hamburg Radio Symphony Orchestra, as the national anthem of an independent India. The song also featured in the 1945 film Hamrahi before it became the official Indian National Anthem.
