The 'Bharat Mata' controversy persists in Kerala. Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar paid tribute to the portrait during Goa Day celebrations. CPI withdrew a poster featuring a different version ...

Kerala Agriculture Minister P Prasad on Thursday boycotted the Environment Day celebration at Raj Bhavan over the presence of the portrait of Bharat Mata on the stage, alleging that it resembled ...

To question Bharat Mata’s presence in a national event is not secularism — it is cultural denial. It is time we stop viewing every national symbol through the lens of partisanship.

That Aurobindo considered Bharat Mata worthy of navavidha bhakti or nine-fold worship is a good indicator as to how the image of India as a mother goddess had already taken root in 1905.