India Gate - a time-lapse

Fast forward at near India Gate: Time lapse

The India Gate, originally called the All India War Memorial, is a war memorial located astride the Rajpath, on the eastern edge of the 'ceremonial axis' of New Delhi, formerly called Kingsway. The names of some 70,000 Indian soldiers who died in World War I, between 1914--19, are inscribed on the memorial arch. In addition, the war memorial bears the names of some 12,516 Indian soldiers who died while serving in the Northwest Frontier and in the Third Afghan War. The India Gate war memorial architectural style, which has been compared Gateway of India in Bombay, and the Napoleonic Arc de Triomphe in Paris, was designed by Edwin Lutyens.

In 1971, following the Bangladesh Liberation war, a small simple structure, consisting of a black marble plinth, with reversed rifle, capped by war helmet, bounded by four eternal flames, was built beneath the soaring arch. This structure, called Amar Jawan Jyoti, or the flame of the immortal soldier, has since 1971 served as India's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

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