Screens have been placed around the ‘C’ hexagon of India Gate with strategically positioned signs announcing the construction of ‘NWM’, the national war memorial. India has war memorials as well as roads and lanes named after those who gave their lives for the nation. Our grandest war memorial still remains India Gate, built by the British to pay tribute to Indian soldiers who died in World War 1 and the Afghan war. In 2014, the centenary of the start of World War I, India commemorated the honour of the men sent to fight for the colonial masters. Can a war memorial escape being embroiled in this?

Source: The Hindu April 08, 2018 18:45 UTC