It is a patriotic and poetic felicitation of -the mother land . some ethnic groups are sore about it just because they are oblivious of two facts firstly that there is no harm in a poetic personification of the land of their birth as MOTHER [as the song goes BANDE MATARAM-obeisance to our mother! } as the tradition of this land goes -janai janm bhumisch swargadapi gareeyasi [mother land is more important than even heaven] secondly there is a subtle difference between personification and deifying . NO hindu deity has been deified in this song by Bankim chandra chaterjee . notions of mother land and father land are determined by the gender of the nation - india is SHE!
