Shashi Tharoor: “That’s where the problem should be addressed, not by fasting unto death.”

It may ultimately have to be adjudicated because there is no law passed by Parliament requiring this. It is more a matter of convention.

If construction was illegal, find other punishments — fines, other punitive measures, even government takeover — but do not destroy a functioning university that UP needs!

I honestly think that this is an unnecessary imposition by the central government of having to listen to all five verses every time.

Vande Mataram is the national song and we stand up in respect when it is sung. The first verse, or the first couple of verses, is something most people know by heart.