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The Jamiat-Ulema-e-Hind resolution on Vande Mataram has evoked mixed reactions from leaders with one section voicing disapproval of raising a "dead issue" when the community has more serious matters to address and another noting that its singing or not could not be the criteria for defining patriotism.

Home Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday, travelled to the Deoband seminary in Uttar Pradesh which is regarded as the fountainhead of orthodox Islam to attend the annual convention of the Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Hind.

A fatwa on cell phone use has several Muslims aghast. The fatwa tries to bar Muslims from using Quranic aayaat as ring tones.Millions of Muslims out of love for Quran and the beauty of tilawat (Quranic recitation) use Quranic verses as ring tones. A large number of Muslims store whole Quranic tilawat in their mobile phones as they do in their laptops and desktops.

The Indian National anthem, composed originally in Bengali by Rabindranath Tagore, was adopted in its Hindi version by the Constituent Assembly as the National Anthem of India on 24 January 1950. It was first sung 27 December 1911 at the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress. The complete song consists of five stanzas. The lyrics were rendered into English by Tagore himself.

Adam Sandler's Hanukkah Song takes a lighter look at the most reverent of Jewish holidays.
Hannukah Song
Intro: this is a song, that uh, there's a lot of xmas songs out there, but not
Too many about Hanukkah, so I wrote a song for all those nice little Jewish
Kids who don't get to hear any Hanukkah songs--here we go...

It was also featured in the 1968 movie version of the musical . The song was written by Bob Merrill and Jule Styne. Both the movie and stage versions feature Barbra Streisand performing the song.

The Sun is reporting today that “You're So Vain” by Carly Simon is in fact about David Geffen. At the time the song was written he was the head of Elektra Records Simon’s Label. Simon has reworked the song to include the whispering of Geffen’s name. This seems to bring to an end the years of speculation surrounding the subject of the song.

We've had quite a lot to celebrate this month... the Winter Olympics and Mardi Gras, Canned Food Month and Potato Lovers Month. Yesterday marked National Banana Bread Day, tomorrow is National Chocolate Covered Peanut Day and today, well, today is National Tortilla Chip Day.

The country scorcher, Miranda Lambert is using the ACMs to debut a new song, the ACMs themselves are still honoring Lambert’s 2007 song “Gunpowder and Lead”. Pop & Hiss hasn’t heard it, “Dead Flowers“- and the press reports from rehearsals have us psyched. Entertainment Weekly’s Whitney Pastorek writes that “this girl is putting a remarkable amount of angst into this song, and she ends with her hand upraised and all her hair in her face.