TIRUPATI: Patriotic spirit pervaded the Mahathi Auditorium and its surroundings on Sunday with 1 lakh voices singing the national anthem in unison.School children and their parents along with other residents of the city joined in rendering Jana Gana Mana to mark the death anniversary of its writer Rabindranath Tagore at the programme organised by Sri Venkateswara Children’s High School along with Spring Dale Public School, Tirupati City Chamber and former Tirupati MLA M Venkataramana. A compilation of the national anthem transliterated into 100 languages by Venkateswara High School director and noted advocate K S Vasu, was also released on the occasion. The book was published with the help of former TTD chairman D K Audikesavulu and was released by minister Galla Aruna Kumari.Several speakers including the minister, DK Audikesavulu Naidu, M Venkataramana, TTD EO LV Subramanyam, Chittoor MP N Sivaprasad and Tirupati Urban SP J Prabhakar Rao apoke on the occasion about how this one song binds together more than 1.2 billion people of the country. R Thulasiram Naidu, principal of Besant Theosophical (BT) College in Madanapalle said that Tagore has a famous relation with Chittoor district. “It was in 1911 that Tagore penned the song ‘Jana Gana Mana’ in Bengali. During his visit to South India in 1919, he stayed at BT College from February 25 to March 3 and it was then that he translated the song into English and tuned it.” He added that he was proud to be a student and later principal of such a historical college.All the school students who participated in the programme waved the national flag as they sung the national anthem for which the police band accompanied them.
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