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The Memorial has four concentric circles and a central obelisk, at the bottom of which burns an 'eternal flame' representing the immortal soldier (amar jawan). [5] [15] The concentric circles are designed as a Chakravyuh, an ancient Indian war formation. [16] are called as follows (from innermost to outermost) :
Amar Jawan Jyoti (lit. transl. Immortal Soldier Flame, or light [a]) is an Indian memorial conceptualised and constructed after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and inaugurated on 26 January 1972. It was the national war memorial in India until February 2019, [7] [8] when the new National War Memorial and its own flame was inaugurated and lit. [9]
The Chakravyūha or Padmavyūha was a very special formation (vyuha), and knowledge of how to penetrate it was limited to only a handful of warriors on the Pandavas' side, namely: Abhimanyu, Arjuna, Krishna and Pradyumna, of whom only Abhimanyu was present when the Kauravas used it on the battlefield.
Chakravyūha (Sanskrit: चक्रव्यूह), also rendered Chakravyuha, Chakravyuham, Chakravyuh or Chakravuh, is another name for the Padmavyuha, an ancient circular battle formation, a circular trap. These terms may also refer to: Chakravyuha, Indian Hindi-language film starring Rajesh Khanna
Raj Ghat is a memorial complex in Delhi, India. The first memorial was dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi where a black marble platform was raised to mark the spot of his cremation on 31 January 1948 and consists of an eternal flame at one end. Located on Delhi's Ring Road, a stone
Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization.
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Chakravyuh (The Vicious Circle), her film first time on a legal act promoting awareness around India's Right to Information Act (RTI), was produced by the Films Division and released on the 8th Anniversary of the RTI Act in an event organised by the Public Concern for Governance Trust (PCGT), the Indian Merchants' Chamber's (IMC) Anti ...