Located
on Rajpath, the road which leads to the magnificent Rashtrapati Bhawan,
the gate is 160 feet high with an arch of 138 feet. Built as a memorial
to commemorate the 70,000 India soldiers killed in World War I, India
Gate was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and completed in 1931. Built from sandstone, the arch also houses the Eternal Flame, a gesture in memory of the Indian soldiers who laid their lives in the 1971 war with Pakistan.
