We the People of India: Decoding a Nation’s Symbols.
Date: 25 April 2026
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Venue: KCC Amphitheatre
Kolkata Centre for Creativity presents an engaging conversation between eminent musician and thinker T.M. Krishna and historian Rudrangshu Mukherjee, centred on Krishna’s latest book We the People of India: Decoding a Nation’s Symbols.
In this deeply researched and reflective work, T.M. Krishna explores the history, meaning, and evolution of India’s key national symbols—the flag, the anthem, the Ashoka emblem, the motto Satyameva Jayate, and the Preamble to the Constitution. Drawing from debates of the freedom movement and the Constituent Assembly, the book examines how these symbols were shaped and how their meanings continue to evolve in contemporary India.
Through historical inquiry and philosophical reflection, the conversation invites audiences to reconsider familiar emblems not as static icons, but as living expressions of the nation’s aspirations, complexities, and democratic ideals.
