TRICOLOUR A STORY
Indian National Flag went through many changes before it took its present form. One of the earliest of these was a Tricolour in red, yellow and green. The red-band had eight white lotuses. While the bottom green had a sun and crescent moon and the words "Wande Mataram" was inscribed on the middle yellow. Mahatma Gandhi commissioned Pingali Venkayya to design one with the charkha(Spinning wheel). In the middle with bands, red and green. A white band was latter added. This become one of the earliest flag to be hoisted in India.
Just before August 15, 1947 a committee was set up by the constituent Assembly and they decided to modify this flag. The spinning wheel was replaced by the Asoka Wheel that represented dharma. The new flag now had three colours deep saffron, white and green, with a blue Ashoka Chakra in the centre.
Saffron colour denotes renunciation. The white in the centre is light, the path of truth. The green shows, our relation to(the) soil, our relation to plant life here, on which all life depends. The "Ashoka Chakra" in the centre of the white is the wheel of the law of dharma".
The National Anthem "Jana Gana Mana" is the first stanza of five lof a hymn composed by Rabindranath Tagore. Although it was written as early as 1911 not many knew of its existence until it was set to score. Tagore and his friend the poet James Cousins were in Madanapalle when Tagore sang the poem to Cousins in Bengali. Tagore land Cousins' wife Margret an expert in Western classical music, set the notations.
The national flag, with its colours and wheel of dharma, and the national anthem, with its evocation of the lands and the people of India stand for the quality of tolerance that the people of who fought for freedom held held as one of the highest ideals in the making of the nation.
(Taken from my collections of news)
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