statements is correct?(2021)
a) Pingali Venkaya designed the tricolour Indian National Flag here.
b) Pattabhi Sitaramaiah led the Quit India Movement of the Andhra region from here.
C) Rabindranath Tagore translated the National Anthem from Bengali to English here.
d) Madam Blavatsky and Colonel Olcott set up headquarters of Theosophical Society first here.
Answer: C
- The song Jana-Gana-mana, composed originally in Bangla by Rabindranath Tagore, was adopted in its Hindi version by the Constituent Assembly as the National Anthem of India on January 24, 1950.
- It was first sung on December 27, 1911, at the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.
- It was at Madanapalle (Chittoor), in February 1919, that Tagore translated his Bengali poem ‘Jana Gana Mana’ into English as ‘Morning Song of India’.