What is the true significance of a National flag ? Flag is termed as an emblem by and large containing a rectangular piece of cloth of exclusive design and hence, it does represent or stand for an institution, region or nation succinctly. Republic of India has its own national flag, the tricolor that does represent the fabric of country along with its long-drawn-out freedom struggle in every possible term. The existing format of Indian national flag did establish whenever the Constituent Assembly of India did adopt the same design on 22nd July, 1947. It is to be noted that the code does control exhibition along with usage of the Indian National Flag. On the word of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of India, Indian National Flag is the emblem of freedom of all people. You may get amazed to know that the Indian National Flag also has a history of its own and it did initiate from the 20th century to Pre independence period of India. The first flag in recorded history was prepared in 1904 under the patronage of Sister Nivedita, acclaimed Irish disciple of Swami Vivekananda. This flag was designed uniquely making use of two colors – red and yellow. On the word of Nivedita, yellow did symbolize success, while red color did stand for freedom struggle exclusively. The mantra of Indian freedom struggle “Bande Mataram” were inscribed in the flag in Bengali. There were other symbols too in the flag. While one of it was 'Vajra', weapon of God 'Indra', the other one happened to be a white lotus in the center. What did the two symbols mean in reality? “Vajra” stood for strength while lotus was depicting purity. Well, this was just the beginning as the later years did witness more developments of the same concept. Take the year 1906, for instance. Unlike the flag of Sister Nivedita, another flag came to the fore in this year and it was designed making use of three colors: red, blue and yellow. In the flag blue strip there were 8 stars of somewhat assorted shapes and the red strip did consist of 2 symbols specifically. While the first symbol happened to be sun, the second one was star. There were 'Vande Mataram' in Devnagiri script on the yellow ribbon. The year 1906 witnessed another flag also, known as Calcutta flag that did symbolize Indian unity and competence of struggle for national liberation. In 1916 a new flag was designed under the auspices of by Lokamanya Tilak along with Dr. Annie Besant and it was hosted at the Congress session in Calcutta. The most prominent colors of this flag happened to be green, white, red and certainly blue. Each and every color was striped. Nevertheless, a sea change took place in 1931 when a new flag with unique designs came to the fore for the first time. This flag did contain three colors – saffron, white and green. But what was most striking, a 'Charkha' in blue color was inscribed at the flag’s center. It is to be noted that this flag designed under the auspices of Pingali Venkayya was adopted as the National Flag in the later years but ‘Charkha' was substituted by 'Wheel' (Chakra) in the center.
for an independent nation the biggest pride is its national flag. the most unique thing about our national flag is that every aspect of the color represents a unique and different story. where saffron is for the sacrifices our nation has made, white is for peace and green represents the prosperity and greenery of our nation.
