Indian National Anthem

Jana Gana Mana (Bengali: জন গণ মন; Devnagri: जन गण मन)[α] is the national anthem of India set to Raag Alhiya Bilawal.[1] Written in Bengali, the first of five stanzas of the Brahmo hymn titled Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata[2] attributed to Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. The underlying message of Jana Gana Mana is pluralism. It was adopted in its Hindi version by the Constituent Assembly as the National Anthem of India on 24 January 1950.[3] It was first sung on 27 December 1911 at the Calcutta (now, Kolkata) Session of the Indian National Congress (Need Citation). A formal rendition of the national anthem takes fifty-two seconds. A shortened version consisting of the first and last lines (and taking about 20 seconds to play) is also staged occasionally.[4] An earlier poem by Tagore (Amar Sonar Bangla) was later selected as the national anthem of Bangladesh.