CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Bhopal: Dinanath Bhargava, a co-artist in the team that sketched the National Emblem ‘Lion Capital of Ashoka’ and decorated the pages of the Constitution’s manuscript, died at the age of 89 in Indore.

Detailed explanation-2: -He was 89. INDORE/KOLKATA: Dinanath Bhargava, the man handpicked by legendary painter Nandalal Bose to design the National Emblem as a 21-year-old, died at his home in Anand Nagar, Indore, on Saturday evening. He was 89.

Detailed explanation-3: -Who designed the National Emblem of India? Ans. Dinanath Bhargava sketched and illuminated India’s national emblem. He was assigned the work to design the emblem for the first page of the Indian Constitution.

Detailed explanation-4: -The State Emblem is an adaptation of the Lion Capital of Asoka at Sarnath. In the original, there are four lions, mounted back to back, on a circular abacus, which itself rests on a bell-shaped lotus.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Lion Capital of Ashoka is the capital, or head, of a column erected by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka in Sarnath, India, c. 250 BCE. Its crowning features are four life-sized lions set back to back on a drum-shaped abacus.