The poem was first sung by Rabindranath Tagore at the 1896 session of the Indian National Congress. Vande Mataram is a Sanskrit poem written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee which he included in his 1882 Bengali novel Anandamath. Vande Mataram ("I bow to thee, O Mother!") The first stanza of the song Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India as the National Anthem on 24 January 1950. It was originally composed as Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata in Bengali by polymath Rabindranath Tagore. Jana Gana Mana is the national anthem of India. Jana Gana Mana ("Thou Art the Ruler of the Minds of All People") Forming an integral part of the emblem is the motto inscribed below the abacus in Devanagari script: "Satyameva Jayate" (English: Truth Alone Triumphs), a quote taken from Mundaka Upanishad, the concluding part of the sacred Hindu Vedas. "Satyameva Jayate" Sanskrit: " सत्यमेव जयते "("Truth Alone Triumphs")Īn adaptation of Lion Capital of Ashoka at Sarnath was adopted as the National Emblem of India on 26 January 1950, the day India became a republic. State Emblem of India ( Lion Capital of Ashoka) The flag is based on the Swaraj flag designed by Pingali Venkayya. In the center is a navy blue wheel with twenty-four spokes, known as the Ashoka Chakra. List of National and Official Symbols of India SymbolĪ horizontal rectangular tricolour with equally sized deep saffron at the top, white in the middle and India green at the bottom.