Legacy in India
Iqbal's poem Saare Jahan Se Achcha has remained popular in India for over a century. Mahatma Gandhi is said to have sung it over a hundred times when he was imprisoned at Yerawada Jail in Pune in the 1930s.[26] The poem was set to music in the 1950s by sitar maestro Ravi Shankar and recorded by singerLata Mangeshkar. Stanzas (1), (3), (4), and (6) of the song are widely sung in India, and regarded as an unofficial national song,[27] and were also turned into the official quick march of the Indian Armed Forces.[28] Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian cosmonaut, employed the first line of the song "sāre jahāñ se acchā hindostāñ hamārā" that means "Better than the entire world, is our Hindustan (India) " in 1984 to describe to then prime minister Indira Gandhi how India appeared from outer space.[29] Current prime minister, Manmohan Singh, quoted the poem at his first press conference.[27]
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