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Imprint of the people in shaping the Constitution

Focusing solely on the Constituent Assembly and its debates erases the intense engagements of Indians with the making of the Constitution and obscures the critical role of the public in turning the Constitution into a living document and an open site of struggle. (HT Archive)

Published 281 days ago

How the Constitution came to represent our civilisational ethos

Spirited debates took place on several issues: Universal suffrage, which some thought was premature, until Jawaharlal Nehru put an end to the debate by saying “the voice of a peasant is as precious as that of a professor” (AFP)

Published 393 days ago

Build an India that Constitution makers would be proud of: Modi in ‘Mann ki Baat’

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (File)

Published 539 days ago

A Constitution by the people: How the charter was framed

The drafting committee published the draft constitution for the public and state organs to comment on it (HT Archive)

Updated 593 days ago

A museum and academy to mark the Constitution at 75

November 26, is Samvidhan Divas, or Constitution Day. (Shutterstock)

Published 594 days ago

Houses must follow tradition of dignified discourse: Om Birla on Constitution Day

(PTI photo)

Published 594 days ago

HT This Day: January 23, 1947 -- Constituent Assembly votes for Republic

HT This Day: January 23, 1947 -- Constituent Assembly votes for Republic (HT)

Updated 903 days ago

Spirit of Constitution guides the Republic

The makers of our Constitution had the wisdom and foresight to acknowledge that a document drafted and adopted in a particular age needs to be equipped with flexibility and adroitness to accommodate the demands of future generations.

Published 960 days ago

‘We should be one to build the nation’: Mallikarjun Kharge in Parliament

leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge speaks at the Parliament’s Central Hall before the House was shifted to a new building on Tuesday. (Video grab/Sansad TV)

Updated 1028 days ago

Parliament session starts today amid buzz over surprise bill. What's on cards?

The discussion on the parliamentary journey will be held simultaneously in both the Houses. (HT Archive)

Updated 1029 days ago

Can constituent assembly Article 370 speech be binding: SC

“Can we say that a speech made by an individual member of the Constituent Assembly, howsoever weighty, represents a binding commitment of the Dominion of India to the state of Jammu and Kashmir? This will have implications in interpreting the constitutional provisions...it is difficult to accept,” a Constitution bench, led by Chief Justice of India Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud said. (File)

Updated 1055 days ago

The history and philosophy of the Tricolour: Courage, Unity, Faith

It was between 1904 and 1906 that the first Indian flag came into existence. The flag was first hoisted on August 7, 1906, in the Parsee Bagan Square (in erstwhile Calcutta). (File photo)

Updated 1063 days ago

The intriguing twists of Ambedkar’s career

Imagine what would have happened if Ambedkar hadn’t made it? (HT Archives)

Published 1079 days ago

Uphold the lofty ideals symbolised by the Tricolour

The Tricolour in Connaught Place. (HT File Photo)

Published 1087 days ago

India’s founders took a nuanced view on UCC

Unlike the polarisation in current discussions, the Constituent Assembly witnessed a rich debate with divergent opinions

Published 1093 days ago

SMA rules must be reconsidered

While hearing a clutch of petitions demanding legal recognition of same-sex marriage, a five-judge Constitution bench said the notice regime was based on patriarchy and laid them open for “invasion by the society”. (Amal KS/HT PHOTO)

Updated 1179 days ago

Towards a new affirmative pact

BR Ambedkar reminded them that the topsoil of democracy in India rested on a bed of deep inequity and, therefore, political democracy would never be enough in the absence of social democracy — where people of various backgrounds, castes, classes and faiths could creditably aspire to the same opportunities without bias. (HT PHOTO)

Updated 1186 days ago

Know your Constitution: Fundamental rights and duties of every Indian citizen

The Constitution of India

Updated 1632 days ago

‘Like the Gita’: Lok Sabha Speaker pays tributes to Constitution, vows for unity

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla

Published 1690 days ago

Know your Constitution: Salient features of India's fundamental political code

The Constitution of India

Published 1690 days ago

On Constitution Day, PM Modi shares part of BR Ambedkar’s speech

On Constitution Day, the government is organising a number of programmes.

Published 1690 days ago

Flag Adoption Day: All you need to know about the Indian Tricolour

The national flag is a horizontal Tricolor of deep saffron at the top, white in the middle and dark green at the bottom in equal proportion.

Published 1817 days ago

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 .

Updated 594 days ago

Safeguarding free speech from threats is important |Opinion

The Nation’s elected leaders at work on the constitution which free India should have been appearing in the picture are BR Ambedkar, Sarat Chandra Bose, Vallabhbhai Patel, BG Kher, Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi and Frank Anthony

Updated 1326 days ago

The importance of fundamental rights, writes Gautam Bhatia

Students hold a national flag, claimed to be more than 1,000-feet long, during a rally ahead of Republic Day in Mumbai.

Updated 594 days ago

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.

Updated 594 days ago

Preamble embodies Constitution’s vision

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

Updated 594 days ago

Constitution to SC: How the federal doctrine evolved

Vallabhbhai Patel (R) in a moment of levity with his associate, Amritlal Vithaldas Thakkar, in 1949.

Updated 1326 days ago

Framers put forth a plural, secular basis for citizenship

A view of the Constituent Assembly on December 10, 1946.

Updated 594 days ago

People who steered India’s founding document

Preamble Constitution of Republic of India

Updated 594 days ago

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