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Problematics I Let the puzzles, games begin

Updated on Sept 05, 2022 12:26 pm IST

We launch today with both kinds of puzzles, with more to follow in the weeks to come. (iStock Photo)

India’s 1st CEC carried out a ‘great, fateful experiment’, writes Ashok Lavasa

Sukumar Sen, India’s first chief election commissioner and conducted the first general elections of Independent India in 1951-52.(Photo Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons)

Updated on Nov 26, 2024 04:14 pm IST

Story of the lions that form India’s national emblem

The emblem is the graphic representation of the Lion Capital that originally graced the top of the Ashok Stambh or Ashoka Pillar at Sarnath. It has the national motto, Satyamev Jayate (truth alone triumphs), written below it.(HTPhoto)

Updated on Nov 26, 2024 04:28 pm IST

The unique goals and challenges of Indian secularism

Dr Jaime Torres Bodet Director General of UNESCO Jawaharlal Nehru and Abul Kalam Azad arriving at Parliament House for the session of the Indian National Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO.(HT Photo)

Updated on Nov 26, 2024 05:14 pm IST

How Ambedkar, Constituent Assembly dealt with the caste conundrum

C Rajagopalachari (R), then governor general of India, with law minister BR Ambedkar on June 14, 1948 .(HT archives)

Updated on Nov 26, 2024 05:12 pm IST

The importance of an independent judiciary, writes Madan Lokur

Chief Justice HJ Kania Administering the Oath of office Rajendra Prasad first President of the republic of India in the Durbar Hall Rashtrapati Bhavan.(HT Photo)

Updated on Nov 26, 2024 05:24 pm IST

HT Archives| Policy of controls takes away creative genius of people: GD Birla

Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi with GD Birla at Boulogne station on the way to England to attend the Round Table Conference as the representative of the Indian Nationals.(HT Archives/ Getty Images)

Updated on Nov 26, 2024 04:35 pm IST

In Partition’s shadow, Constituent Assembly adopted secular charter

Jawaharlal Nehru addressing a meeting of a committee of the Constituent Assembly in New Delhi, 1949.(Alamy Stock Photo)

Updated on Nov 26, 2024 04:40 pm IST

Preamble embodies Constitution’s vision

A photo of the drafting committee of the Constituent Assembly with its chairman BR Ambedkar in the centre.(Alamy Photo)

Updated on Nov 26, 2024 04:42 pm IST

Machines that printed first copies of the Constitution sold as scrap

The Monarch model of the printing machine that printed the first thousand copies of the Constitution of India(Photo Credit: Survey of India)

Updated on Nov 26, 2024 04:43 pm IST

Framers put forth a plural, secular basis for citizenship

A view of the Constituent Assembly on December 10, 1946.(HT Archive)

Updated on Nov 26, 2024 05:12 pm IST

Constitution was the first canvas of modern masters

Constitution was the first canvas of modern masters

Updated on Nov 26, 2024 05:10 pm IST

Greatest strength of India’s Constitution

Jawaharlal Nehru addresses the Constituent Assembly in 1947.(Getty Images)

Updated on Nov 26, 2024 05:15 pm IST

People who steered India’s founding document

Preamble Constitution of Republic of India

Updated on Nov 26, 2024 04:49 pm IST

BN Rau: An idealist and a staunch constitutionalist

An image from March 1951 showing BN Rau working at the UN.(HT Archives)

Updated on Nov 26, 2024 04:51 pm IST

15 remarkable women who helped shape India’s future

Eleven of 15 women members of Constituent Assembly(special arrangement/meera velayudhan)

Updated on Nov 26, 2024 05:08 pm IST

The man who chronicled Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi with Mahadev Desai (right) at the All India Congress Committee meeting in Bombay, August 8, 1942, the day that the Quit India resolution was moved.(National)

Updated on Oct 01, 2023 08:43 pm IST

Birla House: A visit to the Mahatma

Gandhi, a day before his assassination at Birla House, New Delhi.(National Gandhi Museum)

Updated on Oct 01, 2020 08:00 pm IST

‘I kept feeling that Bapu would wake up any minute’: Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee

Tara Bhattacharjee at her residence in New Delhi.(Amal KS/HT)

Updated on Oct 01, 2023 09:00 pm IST

A tribute to Mahatma Gandhi by Dr Martin Luther King, Jr

Dr Martin Luther King, Jr stands next to a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi in his office in 1966.(Bob Fitch Photography Archive, Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries)

Updated on Oct 01, 2023 08:32 pm IST

Hindustan Times and the Mahatma

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi inaugurated the Hindustan Times press in 1924.(KK Chawla/HT Archives)

Updated on Oct 01, 2023 09:03 pm IST

Essential reading on MK Gandhi

Gandhi after his release from prison, 1924.(gandhi museum)

Updated on Oct 01, 2023 09:33 pm IST

A biographer’s journey: In search of the Mahatma

Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru spinning, Delhi.(National)

Updated on Oct 01, 2023 08:47 pm IST

Gandhi and Gujarat: At home and in self-imposed exile

At 6.30 am, on March 12, 1930 MK Gandhi, accompanied by co-marchers, left the Sabarmati ashram for Dandi, a coastal village in Gujarat.(HT Photo)

Updated on Oct 01, 2023 08:37 pm IST

Gandhi, Ambedkar and the 1932 Poona Pact

The impact of MK Gandhi’s principled resistance to BR Ambedkar’s political demand for separate electorates for the so-called depressed classes lives on.(HT image)

Updated on Oct 01, 2023 08:52 pm IST

A hyperlocal economic plan

Gandhi argued for an India of household production for local consumption.

Updated on Oct 01, 2023 08:36 pm IST

An experiment in Khadi, and Gandhi’s eastern base

A charkha used by Mahatma Gandhi on display at the Gandhi Bhavan (Hyderi Manzil) in Kolkata, where he spent 25 days, including Independence Day, in 1947.(Samir Jana/ht)

Updated on Oct 01, 2023 09:40 pm IST

1915-16: A tour of the homeland

Gandhi started his travels from Bombay and journeyed across the length and breadth of the country, from Kolkata to Ahmedabad, Delhi to Chennai.

Updated on Oct 01, 2023 09:11 pm IST

Growing up in Mahatma Gandhi’s Sevagram Ashram

The school started by MK Gandhi and operated by Anand Niketan at Sevagram Ashram Pratisthan in Wardha, Maharashtra.(Satish Bate/HT)

Updated on Oct 01, 2023 09:19 pm IST

Learning to become a political activist

Gandhi recovering after being beaten up by a fellow Indian who felt that Gandhi had made a wrong compromise with South African officials, 1908(National Gandhi Museum)

Updated on Oct 01, 2023 08:42 pm IST

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