Mumbai, Nov 4 (IANS) Veteran Bollywood scriptwriter and lyricist Javed Akhtar believes the controversy over the national song ‘Vande mataram’ is obsolete and those who have any objection to it should simply not sing it.
He was referring to the Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Hind Tuesday asking Muslims not to sing the song on the grounds that some of its [...]
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Deoband (Uttar Pradesh), Nov 3 (IANS) The Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Hind, one of the largest organisations of Muslim clerics in India, Tuesday supported a decree against the national song ‘Vande Mataram’ on the ground that some of its lines were ‘against the religious principles of Islam’.
The resolution asking Muslims not to sing the ‘Vande Mataram’ was passed at [...]
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