At a Congress event in Assam’s Barak Valley, the singing of Amar Sonar Bangla (appropriated from Rabindranath Tagore by Bangladesh for its national anthem) has sparked outrage in some quarters of Assam and Bharat. Why? Because context matters.

Assam’s politics is steeped in a febrile mix of identity, migration, and linguistic assertion. For a section of Assamese, the hymn feels like a breach of sensitivity. The hymn was written by Tagore to instill a sense of oneness among Bengalis who were being pulled in different directions during the first partition of Bengal in 1905.

So, while........

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