Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said in Indore that anyone opposing Vande Mataram should be considered anti-national. He was responding to the Congress decision to sing only its first two stanzas at party…
Lawyer and author Javed Gaya has argued that the Constituent Assembly made a foundational error in the 1940s by prioritising individual liberty over structural representation for minorities, a choice he says laid…
Lord Louis Mountbatten chose August 15, 1947, for the transfer of power, partly because it marked Japan’s surrender anniversary. Indian astrologers reportedly considered the date inauspicious, but the date could not be…
The Constituent Assembly adopted India's national flag on July 22, 1947, replacing the charkha with the Ashoka Chakra. The ndtv.com article explores the meaning of the 24 spokes on the Ashoka Chakra,…
B R Ambedkar, the man who would chair the Drafting Committee of the Indian Constitution, almost lost his seat in the Constituent Assembly weeks after Partition, LiveLaw reports. His Bengal constituency ceased…
