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6000
VOICES SWELL WITH PRIDE IN THE RECITATION OF VANDE MATARAM |
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The IIS
Institutional network joined 6000 plus resounding voices of the various
representative members of the student fraternities, faculties, staff and
workers of it’s 8 educational organizations – The International College
for Girls, The India International School, The International Institute of
Informatics and Management, The Play House, The Centre for Information
Technology, Gurukul, and the ICG Institute of Eductional Research and
Development in reverence of the centenary of our National Song – VANDE
MATARAM At
exactly 11 a.m. on the 7th of September, 2006, the IIS lawns came
alive with the strains of Vande Mataram as throbbing voices full of joyful
pride sang the composition of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee a hundred years
after they were first recited. On the
occasion, Dr. Ashok Gupta, Director IIS Institutional Network addressed the
IIS family gathering, presenting a tribute of honour to the national song
and it’s composer and familiarized the assembly with the meaning of VANDE
MATARAM. Calling the composition a “sutra” (string) that binds all those
who are Indian and amalgamates all that which symbolizes the essence of
being Indian, he said that Vande Mataram is more than a song, it is a spirit
and an emotion that unites the nation discarding all boundations and
categories of creed, colour, religion and community. As far as
the eye could see, the horizon merged with bright-eyed faces standing in
unison, bound together by a common patriotic fervour. The entire programme
was a sight for sore eyes in today’s times fraught with communal tensions
and terrorist terror. The
programme was also aired live on the IIS Institutional Network’s community
radio channel – FM 7 at 90.4 MegaHertz |
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