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"Pingali Venkayya: The Visionary Behind India’s Tricolour Legacy"1

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"Pingali Venkayya: The Visionary Behind India’s Tricolour Legacy"
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Zero Mile
Zero Mile

"From Colonial Zero Mile to Karaundi's Ashoka Pillar – Tracing the Shifting Geographical Heart of Independent Modern India"

Geographical Centre of Historic and Modern India
Nagpur is historically known as the geographical centre of India, marked by the iconic Zero Mile Stone. Erected by the British, this sandstone monument features a pillar and four majestic horses, and was used to measure distances across colonial India. The pillar has carvings of distances to major cities, reinforcing Nagpur’s central importance.

Centre of Modern India – Karaundi
Following the Partition, India’s topography changed, and the geographical centre shifted from Nagpur to Karaundi in Madhya Pradesh. Located at 23.48°N, 80.12°E with an elevation of 386 meters, Karaundi now represents the modern heart of India. An Ashoka Pillar monument, featuring four lions facing each direction, stands tall in a field, signifying this updated central point.

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News
News

Newspaper headlines on August 15, 1947

On the historic day of India’s independence, The Daily Telegraph, a prominent London-based newspaper, marked the moment with a subdued yet significant front-page headline: “India is now two dominions.” Positioned on the extreme left of the front page, the headline underscored the gravity of the subcontinent’s division, referencing the simultaneous birth of two nations, India and Pakistan. Rather than celebrating the dawn of freedom alone, the coverage reflected the geopolitical complexity of the moment, highlighting the bittersweet reality of independence intertwined with the pain of Partition. →
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Voice
Voice
Lata Mangeshkar – The Voice That Unites a Nation

Indian Book of Records proudly honors Lata Mangeshkar as a Lead Indian, whose timeless voice echoes in every heart. →

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