PROUD TO BE INDIAN.!!

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. In the centre of the white band, there is a wheel in navy blue with 24 spokes called the Dharma Chakra or Ashok Chakra. The ratio of the width to the length of the flag is 2:3.

The colour scheme seems to imply a meaning to the national flag of India. The saffron stands for courage, sacrifice and the spirit of renunciation; the white, for purity and truth; the green for faith and fertility. According to History, the design of the National Flag of India was adopted by India's constituent assembly on 22nd july, 1947.

Who designed the Indian flag?

The Indian national flag is said to have been designed by Pingali Venkayya from Machilipatnam in 1916. The tricolour flag had a charkha in the centre and was adopted by the Congress committee in 1931 at Karachi. In 1947, during an ad hoc meeting of the Constituent Assembly, it was approved as the National Flag of India with the Ashok Chakra instead of the charkha. 

Mahatma Gandhi's quote on our Indian flag:

"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."

Interesting Facts - India's Flag

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.