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Republic at 70

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.
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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.
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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.
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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 .
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Updated on Nov 26, 2024 05:12 pm IST

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
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Updated on Nov 25, 2022 06:40 pm IST

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