Patriotic Bengali Music

"Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul..." Plato

The impact of music on human psyche can never be fully comprehended. Music has the power to inspire, ability to change moods and bring about social revolution. It's everywhere in nature. Hence the idea that music may predate language is not shocking. A culture's music reflects its every aspect. Bengal has a wealthy musical heritage. As many scholars and exponents believe, music in this part of the world was perhaps formed as an expression of devotion. Most songs glorified some deity or mythological accounts, while some depicted lifestyles of different classes. However, all that changed in last two hundred years.

Thoughts for a Better West Bengal !

There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class.

One day while the class was in the lab, the professor noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt. The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new communist regime.

Swami Vivekananda's Appeal to the Youths of India

We need strength, or else everything will go in vain. All I need is some dynamic youths - whose muscular grasp should be as strong as iron and the physique should be made up of steel; the very soul of these youths needs to be rendered out with the element of thunder. Strength and courage is the religion, weakness and cowardice is sin. Freedom is religion, captivity is a sin.

Jai Bhabani
Bandemataram

Sister Nivedita's Messege to the Revolutionaries of Bengal

In Ireland we have a saying which history has verified, England yields nothing without bombs. Every step forward, every reform has always been wrested from the government, and paid for by a handful of men. But Ireland is proud of its heroes. Where are the heroes produced by your generation ?

Jai Bhabani,
Bandemataram

Pather Dabi - Sarat Chandra Chattopadhaya

Those who have arrived from foreign soil and have forcefully taken away my rights in my Motherland. Those who have taken away everything from me - my Humanity, my Self-Esteem, my Hunger, my Thirst; it is They who now possesses the right to exterminate me, but I have no right in my own Mother Land.

Jai Bhabani,
Bandemataram.