City's Khanna Press published nearly 5,000 copies of the song. He penned the 'Jhanda.' song on the night of March 3 and 4, 1924. He was third and youngest son of Visheshwar Prasad and Kaushalya Devi. Shyam Lal Gupta was born on Septemin Kanpur in a Dosar Vaishya family. "The nation will sing the immortal song on the 67th Independence Day but few turned up to Phoolbagh ground to garland the statue of Shyam Lal Gupta ji here on his 37th death anniversary on Sunday," said Alok Mehrotra, president of Vande Matram Sangharsh Samiti. KANPUR: We all sing the famous patriotic song 'Vijayi vishwa tiranga pyara, Jhanda uncha rahe hamara.' especially around the Independence Day and Republic Day every year, while its writer Shyam Lal Gupta 'Parshad', who hailed from Kanpur, remains unsung.
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