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Five patriotic songs for India’s 80th Independence Day
India’s 80th Independence Day in 2026 brings a familiar playlist of patriotic songs, from Lata Mangeshkar’s Ae Mere Watan Ke Logon to Teri Mitti from Kesari. NDTV lists five tracks that centre…
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India’s 80th Independence Day in 2026 brings a familiar playlist of patriotic songs, from Lata Mangeshkar’s Ae Mere Watan Ke Logon to Teri Mitti from Kesari. NDTV lists five tracks that centre on sacrifice, national pride and longing for home.
The selection also includes AR Rahman and Sukhwinder Singh’s Des Mere Des from The Legend of Bhagat Singh, Ae Watan from Raazi, and Yeh Jo Des Hai Tera from Swades. Ae Mere Watan Ke Logon was first performed by Mangeshkar in 1963 to honour soldiers killed in the 1962 Indo-China war. C Ramchandra composed it and Kavi Pradeep wrote the lyrics.
The Indian Opinion
Patriotic playlists often reduce national feeling to predictable emotion, while dismissing popular film music as mere commercial packaging. Both views are too narrow. These songs connect wars, films and personal memory, but their impact depends on listeners rather than claims of a single definitive anthem. The useful test is simple: does the playlist make space for different histories and voices, or repeat the same five songs every year?
Source: ndtv.com
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