Today's Beautiful Gem: "Bharat Mata"

But Abanindranath Tagore 's Bharat Mata is very different from the people' s images in their minds. His Bharat Mata is a beautiful young lady in an orange sari and looks like a sad person standing by the lotus pond. Behind her head, there are halos in the four hands, giving her a sacred appearance. In each of her hands, she has a sacred manuscript, Axama, or a rosary, a vast portion of cloth and a mountain of leaves of rice. She has a calm attitude and is an embody of grace. She is a combination of Saraswati and Lakshmi, they are very respected gods, the former is knowledge and the latter is prosperity. In general, the gods seem to mean that the motherland has shiksha, diksha, Anna and vasta gifts, knowledge, spirituality, food and clothing.

Barratmata is a work created by Indian artist Abanindranath Tagore in 1905. This work depicts the mother of Bharat Mata or India in the style of the goddess of Hinduism. This picture is the first example of the concept and ideally drawn in Swadesh during the larger Indian independence movement. When Tagore first studied at Sanskrit University in Kolkata in the 1880s, he was exposed to the art of learning. In his early days Tagore painted a naturalistic style of Europe so that it could be seen from his early picture like Armory. About 1886 or around 1887, Gagada Nandini Devi, a relative of Tagore, held a meeting between Tagore and E. B Havell, a curator of the Kolkata National University of Arts. Havel got a local art collaborator, his idea was the same as his own, and Tagore got him a teacher to teach science in Indian art history. "

Calling Bharat Mata in an independent India sounds strange, remember at least that history. The goddess is a collection of two very common words in today's Indian common vocabulary, nationalism and patriotism. The question is whether to say "Bharat Mata Ki Jai" or not. India is a country with religious pantheons, especially Hindu mainstream religion with many gods and goddesses. Religion became part of the national nomenclature when the national identity was related to that religion, hence the name of Hindustan, the country of the Hindus. It is worth mentioning that this name was not created during the Independence Movement but was created by a foreigner who identified a majority of the country's religious beliefs in our country trip.