Patriotism and Music
Patriotic feelings have been instigated within Indians through music, since the era of freedom struggle. Jana Gana Mana, the national anthem of India, by Rabindranath Tagore is largely credited for uniting India through music. Post-independence songs such as Mile Sur Mera Tumhara have been responsible for consolidating feelings of national integration and unity in diversity,
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“The point is that nationalism, even in its latest madhouse frenzies under Mussolini and Hitler, is still, like advertising, an arm of big business. Nations as we know them today, were the invention of business and it is natural that business should still consider itself slightly above patriotism and that the strongest international should still be the international of profits.”
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Only in time; but that which is only living
Can only die. Words, after speech, reach
Into the silence.”
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