A piece of music you heard in childhood

·         Well, ma’am, music is all around us and it accompanies everything of life.

·         Right from the first lullaby that the mother sings to the cradle to the dirge of the funeral pyre, music accompanies everything of life

·         Here I am going to talk about a piece of music which I heard in my childhood and I like it even today

·         It is our national anthem ‘Jana Gana Mana’

·         It was composed originally in Bengali by Rabindra Nath Tagore

·         Its Hindi version is our National Anthem

·         It was adopted as the national anthem on 24^th January 1950

·         The complete song has five stanzas

·         The first stanza was taken as the National Anthem

·         The playing time of National Anthem is 52 seconds

·         I first heard the National Anthem in my school days

·         I like this song a lot because it is our National Anthem

·         It evokes a feeling of patriotism in me

·         It is an identity of my nation

·         Whenever this song is played, all Indians stand up in respect

·         It is played in the morning assembly of all schools

·         It is on the lips of each and every Indian

·         I know this song by heart