facts about indian flag
Naashak
hi friends,
"It will be necessary for us Indians — Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Parsis and all others to whom India is their home — to recognise a common flag to live and die for.”
– Mahatma Gandhi’s quote on our Indian flag
THE NATIONAL FLAG OF INDIA is in tricolour ( TIRANGA) of deep saffron (Kesari) at the top, white in the middle and dark green at the bottom in equal propotions.
The Indian flag is a horizontal tricolour in equal proportion of deep saffron on the top, white in the middle and dark green at the bottom. The ratio of the width to the length of the flag is two is to three. In the centre of the white band, there is a wheel in navy blue to indicate the Dharma Chakra, the wheel of law in the Sarnath Lion Capital. This center symbol or the ‘CHAKRA’, is a Buddhist symbol dating back to 200th century BC.
Its diameter approximates the width of the white band and it has 24 spokes, which intends to show that there is life in movement and death in stagnation. The saffron stands for courage, sacrifice and the spirit of renunciation; the white, for purity and truth; the green for faith and fertility.
The design of the National Flag of India was adopted by India’s constituent assembly on 22nd july, 1947. It’s use and display are regulated by a code.
The flag symbolizes freedom. The late Prime Minister Pandit Nehru called it a flag not only of freedom for ourselves, but a symbol of freedom for all people.
The Indian national flag was hoisted on Mt. Everest, the highest peak in the world, on May 29 1953, along with the Union Jack and the Nepalese National flag.
Bhikhaji Rustom Cama was the first Indian to have raised an Indian flag on foreign soil and announced to the world our political flight with the British for the country’s Independence. Madame Cama’s flag had green on the top, golden saffron and red at the bottom. Eight lotuses, representing the eight provinces, were lined on the Indian flag. Vande Mataram was written in gold with the Crescent towards the hoist of the flag and the Sun on the other side.
In 1971, the Indian flag, went into space on board Apollo-15. It flew into space as a medallion on the spacesuit worn by Cosmonaut Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma, during the Indo-Soviet joint space flight in April 1984.
As of January 15, 2002, Indian citizens were allowed to fly the Indian flag throughout the year. Earlier they were only allowed to do so on special days such as Republic Day and Independence Day. The Delhi High Court ruled that displaying the Indian flag was part of the fundamental right to freedom of expression.
Pingali Venkayya (1878-1963) was an Indian freedom fighter and the designer of the flag.
PROUD TO BE INDIAN 🙂
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Sub mine too, thanks! 🙂
http://www.erepublik.com/en/newspaper/friday-13th-news-266464/1
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Jews in India? Really?
navin bro there are lots of jews in india... many in Mumbai, quite a few in Kerala and quite a few even in Mizoram!
Do you know the Mizos regard themselves as the lost tribe of Israel... and Jewish Mizos get immediate citizenship in Israel 🙂
Had no clue bro 🙂
If they are the lost tribe 😃, where are the mines of Solomon then ? 🙂
It's becoming a fashion like, considering yourself from lost Jewish tribe. There're almost 800-900 Jews in India. I wonder brother Nagraj could mention 800 Jews but forgot Sikhs 🙁
gud one
nice
n the congress adopted the flag in my town 🙂
And that is ?
Vijayawada, http://archive.india.gov.in/myindia/myindia_frame.php?id=4
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Good article frn😛)
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/article-to-complete-two-missions-in-single-article-2464569/1/20
can you add a line about Pingali Venkayya- designer of the flag on which current flag is based.
Jai Hind.
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Could you develop, beside being a patriot, who was Pingali ? Could you tell more about him ? Shukriyaa _/\_
http://anitasatyajit.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/pingali-venkayya-wa-anita-satyajit.pdf
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Help on comments number, thank you for helping us in the AS!(●'◡'●)
Good article o/
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Jai Hind
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