{"id":1129,"date":"2022-02-01T11:36:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T06:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/werindia.com\/blog\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2024-09-05T15:06:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T09:36:11","slug":"prem-bihari-narayan-saxena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/werindia.com\/blog\/prem-bihari-narayan-saxena\/","title":{"rendered":"Prem Bihari Narayan Saxena"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"x_ydpdd8177c4MsoNormal\">Shri Prem Bihari Narain Raizada (Saxena) was the calligraphist of the Constitution of India, who hand written (Calligraphed) \u00a0historic document: the Constitution of free India on the request of Jawahar Lal Nehru (The Prime Minister of India at that time). His only demand was to write his initial (PREM) on each of the pages of the constitution he calligraphed. Nehru gave him a room in the house of Parliament to set up his calligraphy studio. Bundles of parchment sheets were neatly arranged. 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