​A Patriotic Disaster: How Compulsory ‘Vande Mataram’ is Fracturing a Great Nation

​ ​In 2026, the Indian Parliament passed a strange ‘Prevention of Insults to National Honour’ (Amendment) Bill. This amendment brought the two-stanza national song ‘Vande Mataram’ under the same legal protections reserved only for the National Anthem and the National Flag.  That very measure by the outnumbering ruling party members in the Parliament, triggered a […]