Adorable and admirable! Proud of Esther Hnamte for this rendition. https://t.co/wQjiK3NOY0
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) October 31, 2020
Four-year old Esther Hnamte from Mizoram’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is thoroughly impressed by a four-year-old girl’s rendition of Vande Mataram and applauded her in a new post on social media on Saturday. Esther Hnamte from Mizoram’s Lunglei crooned Vande Mataram in her soulful voice and a video of her performance was tweeted by Chief Minister Zoramthanga.
When you are showered with cuteness and love 😊🌹Esther (4 years) https://t.co/AgCjcLXfov via @YouTube
— A.R.Rahman #99Songs 😷 (@arrahman) October 30, 2020
PM Modi noticed the video and retweeted it from his account on Twitter and praised Esther for her rendition of the song.
Esther Hnamte, adorable in a pretty frock, sang Vande Mataram in a delightful clip and also held the Indian flag during her performance.
“Mesmerizing Esther Hnamte, a 4-year-old kid from Lunglei, Mizoram singing Maa Tujhe Salaam; Vande Mataram,” Zoramthanga said in the caption of his post.
“Adorable and admirable! Proud of Esther Hnamte for this rendition,” PM Modi said in the caption of his post as he retweeted Esther’s video.
Esther’s video has gone viral on social media with over lakhs of likes and retweets. On YouTube, a full clip of her performance was posted with the caption, “Dear brothers and sisters, be proud that you are an Indian. It is a land of love, care and affection. So lovely the variety in languages, cultures, lifestyle. Let us stand together to be good sons and daughters for our motherland in spite of the diversities.”
Celebrated musician AR Rahman also applauded Esther and tweeted her video with the caption, “When you are showered with cuteness and love.”
AR Rahman’s rendition of Vande Mataram is popular across the world. His version is part of an album of original compositions released in 1997 for India’s 50th anniversary of its independence.
An ode to the Motherland, Vande Mataram is a Sanskrit poem written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. It was included in his 1882 Bengali novel Anandamath. The first two verses of Vande Mataram were adopted as the National Song of India in 1937 by the Congress Working Committee ahead of the end of the colonial rule in August 1947.