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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.

Updated 594 days ago

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.

Updated 594 days ago

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.

Updated 594 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

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.

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

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

Updated 594 days ago

The shifting dynamics of Centre-state relationship

The re-election of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2019 with an even bigger majority than what it had in 2014 signifies the emergence of a dominant political hegemon in India after a long time.

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

Constitution was the first canvas of modern masters

Constitution was the first canvas of modern masters

Updated 594 days ago

Greatest strength of India’s Constitution

Jawaharlal Nehru addresses the Constituent Assembly in 1947.

Updated 594 days ago

People who steered India’s founding document

Preamble Constitution of Republic of India

Updated 594 days ago

BN Rau: An idealist and a staunch constitutionalist

An image from March 1951 showing BN Rau working at the UN.

Updated 594 days ago

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