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Many colors of Tiranga

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DQW Bureau
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Our national flag, the tricolor is most of the time taken for granted by over 100 crore people in our country. But did you ever know that our national flag went up in the air not on August 15, 1947, but on August 16 at 8.30 AM, and that it was gifted to the president Rajendra Prasad as a gift from the women of India by Hansa Mehta. She had said at that moment, "It is in the fitness of things that the first flag, that is to fly over this august house should be a gift from the women of India." All this and more details of our tiranga, the symbol of our national pride and independence is available on the website,

www.tiranga.net, a site solely dedicated to the tricolor. 

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At a time when websites are closing down on a massive scale, and the new clones no longer catching our imagination, a simple and elegant site dedicated to the national flag acquires some importance. Even when many sacrifices have been made in the honor of this flag, most of us are kept in the dark as to the evolution, meaning and the genesis of the flag. This site is nothing but a preface to our national flag with sections like the Genesis of Tiranga, The evolution of Tiranga, The birth of Tiranga, Thus I was born and The Ancient

Dvaja.

The section, Thus I was born tells you of the night of August 14 and the day of August 16 when our national flag actually flew over RedFort. The section has captured the emotion with which our national leaders have gifted the Tiranga to our nation. Genesis of Tiranga describes the importance of flags and how they were born and then continues to tell about tricolors. The section on the evolution of the Tiranga speaks elaborately on the birth and the many changes that the tricolor has gone through from the time of its inception to become the national Flag of the present day. It takes you through the importance of flags for a territorial sovereignty, to the origin of the concept of the flag in the Indian freedom struggle, the importance ascribed to it by Subhash Chandra Bose, and how the Tiranga was designed by Schindra Prasad Bose, a close follower of Sir Surendranath Banerjee and the son-in-law of the moderate Brahmo leader, Krishna Kumar Mitra. 

The flag was for the first time hoisted at the Parsi Bagan Square on August 7, 1906, which was observed as Boycott Day to protest against the partition of Bengal. The section also describes how Madame Bhikhaji Rustom Cama hoisted our national flag for the first time in foreign soil. Then the section unfurls the story of how the flag has evolved along with the freedom movement and the supreme sacrifices of millions of people of India. The Jhanda Andolan, the Khader flag, the Home rule flag etc and how Gandhiji redesigned the flag to give Muslims, the weakest society a supreme place by placing their color, green on top, all come alive here. 

Tiranga also have details on the various songs that have been written on our national flag. The `Birth of Tiranga' describes as to how the national flag attained its current position and the ways and means to respect the flag. It is quite informative in that the national tricolor requires certain specification to be the national flag with regard to the length and width of each color and the brightness of each color. 

The last section `The Ancient Dhvaja' deals with a little bit of history or epic, which speaks about the dhvajas of the early days. It is indeed an eye-opener that a simple flag as ours holds so many stories within it and it is indeed commendable on the part of Unistal to capture all of them on a single elegant website.

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