India, Jan. 25 -- India will celebrate its 77th Republic Day on January 26, commemorating the adoption of the Indian Constitution. The Constitution came into effect on January 26, 1950.

The day is traditionally celebrated with a grand parade at Kartavya Path, near India Gate in Delhi. President Droupadi Murmu will unfurl the National Flag after Prime Minister Narendra Modi lays a wreath at the National War Memorial, officially commencing the celebrations at 9:30 AM. Visitors can enter through the gates from 7 am onwards.

According to Vivek Agarwal, secretary of the Ministry of Culture, the tableaux displayed during Republic Day in India are much more than just ceremonial displays and function as moving archives of the nation's civilisat...