<Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> "Jana Gana Mana" (Bengali: (ɟənə gəɳə mənə)) is the national anthem of India . It was composed in Bengali by poet Rabindranath Tagore . The song was adopted by the Constituent Assembly as the National Anthem of India on 24 January 1950 . </P> <P> The first stanza of the song Bharot Bhagyo Bidhata was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India as the National Anthem on 24 January 1950 . A formal rendition of the national anthem takes approximately fifty - two seconds . A shortened version consisting of the first and last lines (and taking about 20 seconds to play) is also staged occasionally . It was first publicly sung on 27 December 1911 at the Calcutta (now, Kolkata) Session of the Indian National Congress . This is the first of five stanzas of Tagore's Bengali song Bharot Bhagyo Bidhata . </P> <P> The poem is sung in a literary register of the Bengali language called sadhu bhasa . The song has been written almost entirely using nouns that also can function as verbs and has commonality with all major languages in India due to Sanskrit being their common source of formal vocabulary . Therefore, the original song is quite clearly understandable, and in fact, remains almost unchanged in several widely different Indian languages (if variations in inherent vowel and pronunciation of approximants and some sibilants are ignored). The transcription below reflects the pronunciation in Bengali script, Devanagari script and Latin script . </P>

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