{"id":1017,"date":"2022-01-26T05:54:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T05:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2022-01-26T05:54:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T05:54:31","slug":"remembering-the-calligrapher-who-hand-wrote-the-constitution-of-india-on-the-republic-day-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/remembering-the-calligrapher-who-hand-wrote-the-constitution-of-india-on-the-republic-day-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the Calligrapher who hand wrote The Constitution of India on The Republic Day 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Duiena Rai<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 Dr B.R Ambedkar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26 January, a day etched in the history of India. The day commemorates our Constitution&#8217;s adoption and India being declared a republic. Indian Constitution is one of the lengthiest constitutions ever made in the world. It took almost three years to draft it. The most seasoned and intellectual minds shouldered the responsibility of preparing the Indian Constitution. This well-structured, concise document was handwritten by Prem Behari Narain Raizada, an Indian Calligrapher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man who penned the Constitution of India singlehandedly hand wrote the whole Constitution, 395 articles, eight schedules and the preamble within around six months. It is said that more than 400 nibs were used, and the original manuscript weighed more than 3 kg. The whole calligraphy was done in one of the rooms in the Constitution Hall, today known as the Constitution Club. Indeed, Raizada had a significant role in the history of India&#8217;s Constitution. When Jawaharlal Nehru had asked Prem Behari Narain Raizada the remuneration, he would take for this prestigious job. He had told him not a single penny but had a request, <em>&#8220;But I have one reservation\u2014that on every page of Constitution I will write my name and on the last page I will write my name along with my grandfather&#8217;s name.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This request of Raizada was wholeheartedly accepted and honoured. The man who penned the Constitution and his grandfather who taught him the art of calligraphy left their indelible marks on the pages of the revered Constitution of our nation and the history of our motherland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duiena Rai &#8220;Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.&#8221; \u2013 Dr B.R Ambedkar 26 January, a day etched in the history of India. The day commemorates our Constitution&#8217;s adoption and India being declared a republic. Indian Constitution is one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-did-you-know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}