![]() ![]() ![]() I was shocked, horrified, so saddened by the plight of Nirbhaya and so many other women who suffer violence that I was moved to sing ‘Vande Mataram’ not so much that it is considered a national anthem but because it praises the Shakti, the great Mother, the eternal feminine that is made out to be the nourishing earth. “I had initially recorded a version of ‘Vande Mataram’ following the terrible news of Nirbhaya’s fatal assault on the bus in Delhi in 2012. New Delhi: The brutal assault on a physiotherapy intern on a moving bus in the national capital eight years ago moved Tanya Wells to record ‘Vande Mataram’ and launched the London-born Anglo-Swiss singer on a journey that has seen her performing Urdu ghazals around the world to highly appreciative audiences. ![]()
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