GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -India’s National Anthem, ‘Jana Gana Mana ‘, is an adoption from the writings of the poet and playwright, Rabindranath Tagore. The lines of India’s National Anthem are taken from Rabindranath Tagore’s song, ‘Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata ‘. The original was written in Bengali and the full song has 5 stanzas.

Detailed explanation-2: -Jana Gana Mana is our National Anthem. It was originally composed in Bengali by Rabindranath Tagore and was later adopted as our National Anthem on 24 January 1950. Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath – poet, writer, composer, philosopher, social reformer as well as great painter.

Detailed explanation-3: -The song was sung for the first time in India on the second day of the Calcutta Conference of the Congress party in December 1911. This conference was held specially to give a loyal welcome to King George the fifth, and to thank him for annulling the Partition of Bengal in 1905.