Amar Jawan Jyoti

This memorial of an eternal flame beneath the India Gate arch commemorates the soldiers who died in the 1971 war and, more broadly, the nation's unknown fallen. Inaugurated in 1972, it centred on a reversed rifle capped by a helmet above a black marble plinth, guarded around the clock by servicemen. For decades wreath-laying ceremonies on national days took place here in the presence of leaders. In 2022 the flame was merged with the torch at the nearby National War Memorial, yet the site retains deep significance for visitors.