Facts About India's National Anthem

India's National Anthem was reportedly first sung at the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress in December 1911

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The original was written in Bengali and the full song has 5 stanzas.

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The song was translated into English in 1919 with the title "Morning Song of India"

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It was labelled 'national anthem' by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose for the first time during the meeting of the German-Indian Society on September 11, 1942. However, it formally became the anthem in 1950.

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It takes approximately 52 sec to sing the national anthem in its entirety, not beyond that.

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The hindi version of the national anthem was adopted by the Constituent Assembly on January 24, 1950.

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was a key person in making the selection of the national anthem.

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There is also a Hindi-Urdu version by Captain Abid Hasan Safrani, titled 'Subh Sukh Chain'

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