Every year in India 15th August is celebrated as Independence Day. After the difficult period of two hundred years of slavery and after hundred years of struggle, India was liberated from the slavery of the British at midnight on August 15, 1947. In this way, this day again became the biggest day in India's history.
First national flag
Slave India was first hoisted the National Flag on August 7, 1906, and this national flag was designed with three red, green and yellow colored stripes. The flag of this flag had eight white lotus flowers, a moon and sun made of white in red stripe and Vande Mataram in the middle strip in the middle.
Design of the current national flag
The first version of India's current national flag goes to Dahomar Pingali Venkayya to prepare the design. They designed this design in 1921. There were three different colored strips in this flag. Out of this, the red and green stripe showed the colors of India's two main communities and the white strip above showed the color of the people of other communities. There was also a rumor in this flag.
National anthem
When India was liberated, there was no national song in India at that time. Then "Jana Gana Mana" was accepted as the national anthem of India. This song was originally written by Gurudev Ravindranath Tagore in Bengali.
Gandhi's fast on August 15
When India became independent on August 15, 1947, at the time of Uji, Gandhi was in Calcutta. He was fasting to prevent communal violence spreading in India at that time.
Merger of Goa
When India got independence, then the state of Goa of Goa was declared as the Portuguese State. Then on December 19, 1961, the Indian Army was liberated from Portugal by attacking Goa, after which Goa became the kingdom of India.
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