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History Edition Part 3-National Flag.

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                                   National Flag Of India                   Every free nation of the world has its own flag. It is a symbol of a free country.                                          Well we all know what the above picture indicates. Yes,It is the Indian National Flag. Now lets see how it came to be the one it is today.    Evolution of the Indian Flag Prior to the Sepoy Mutiny in 1857, the fragmented nation of India was represented by the individual flags of the various princely states. Post the Sepoy Mutiny, the British established Imperial rule in India and a flag was introduced to represent the British colony of India. The flag was blue, with the Union Jack on the upper left corner, and a star enclosed by a crown on the down right corner.  The first unofficial flag to be hoisted by the Indians happened on August 7, 1906, in Parsee Bagan, Calcutta. The rectangular flag consisted of three horizontal stripes of green, yellow and red from t

Song Corner Part 1

                                         Song Corner Well after much discussing with a few friends and family alive I have decided to add a song corner to the blog. Now you might think that what is this and why I am doing this so called song corner. Well the reason is that I think that everyone loves songs of various types-rock,pop or even folk songs. So why not start with some songs which talk a lot about India and have some meaning in them. Note-These songs are not all folk songs.Some of them are from Bollywood songs to from various                  movies.                                              Without Further Ado,Here is the first one-                                     BHARAT KA REHENEWALA HU,BHARAT KI BAAT                                                                                                          SUNATA HU. Song Name-Bharat Ka Rehenewala Hu. Film Title-Purab aur Paschim(1970) Director-Manoj Kumar Lyrics Hind