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The omnipresence of Shakespeare in India’s Constituent Assembly and legal system
December 11, 2025 1:39 pm
From the making of the Constitution to the courts of today, Shakespeare’s words have shaped India’s legal imagination in surprising ways.
79 years ago today, the Constituent Assembly held its first meeting. Here’s what happened
December 09, 2025 5:50 pm
The drafting of the Indian Constitution was a mammoth task that the Constituent Assembly completed in nearly three years. Their first meeting was held on December 9, 1946, with greetings from other nations and the chairman’s address.
When Dalit demands and upper-caste anxieties collided in the making of India’s Constitution
December 08, 2025 11:29 am
Rohit De and Ornit Shani’s new book, Assembling India's Constitution: A New Democratic History, traces the demands put forward by Dalit organisations, upper-caste groups, and individual petitioners — each articulating their fears, ambitions, and visions of justice for the new republic as the Constitution took shape.
We the People of India’s cities: Realising the vision of a free and equal democracy
November 27, 2025 1:43 pm
With rapidly expanding urbanism, India’s cities are at the frontlines of our constitutional promise and failure. We need a re-imagination of rights, justice and dignity in the city — one rooted in the Constitution itself
Indian Constitution@76: Why constitutional morality is essential for democracy
November 26, 2025 1:03 pm
It resists any attempt to fix it to a single ideological frame. It holds liberal ideals of dignity and liberty, a commitment to redistribution for the common good, and a communitarian vision of collective progress
Ambedkar always advocated unity of country: Justice Gavai
April 15, 2025 10:55 am
Justice Gavai said Ambedkar was “one of the greatest sons of the country” and a “great visionary” who contributed to various fields as an economist
When freedom came on Aug 15, 1947, AK Gopalan was in jail; his case a benchmark for personal liberty
February 20, 2025 10:36 am
In this new series, The Indian Express tracks down the women and men who reshaped the Republic.
Republic Day 2025: Begum Aizaz Rasul charted a new course for Muslim women
January 27, 2025 10:53 am
The sole Muslim woman member of the Constituent Assembly, Begum Rasul opposed religion-based reservation and spoke up against conventions, like the purdah, that shackled women like her.
Go back to Constituent Assembly debates and learn
December 25, 2024 2:13 pm
Parliament saw an unfortunate series of events in B R Amebdkar’s name. Now, to understand and follow the Constitution he graciously penned, parliamentarians need to change and listen to what the original framers had envisaged.
PM Modi recalls 1948 debate on Uniform Civil Code: What Ambedkar, KM Munshi said
December 17, 2024 1:10 pm
In the Constituent Assembly, Ambedkar and Mushi challenged some of the criticisms around UCC. However, Ambedkar also said the exercise of government power over personal laws “must reconcile to the sentiments of different communities”.
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Delhiites wake up to improved visibility on Christmas; dense fog hits Bengaluru flight ops
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After days of recording dense fog conditions, the weather improved in Delhi early Thursday, with hardly any fog over at Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast. The visibility on Christmas day increased to 2,500 metres — early on Thursday.
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