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Content of this blog is copyrighted. Do not use the text and pictures in any format without expressed permission of the owner of this blog.Flags and Stampshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06350325346659297692noreply@blogger.comBlogger123125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295916586089350708.post-58909480996952456082022-04-09T16:18:00.001-07:002022-04-09T16:18:26.707-07:00Lucknow Military Literature Fest, 2021<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Ul9wxP0um_ny1z1IhELswWkg_DhfJdQsi8dqms4WFgqXo_kYs6PUhj1K_RGcjGbCNoxz7BGWYDPWWawiEaoVmot8vJC2BEqWYjRcmjzp3X9c_wGCYclq0fyTZugCLIVmC8hLxxv3wplOTTIKOh5Sf0XqKkNOrqHKZ5ABHWHqkafTjE0WDcZQcTJaXA/s1201/IMG-20210812-WA0039.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1201" data-original-width="751" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Ul9wxP0um_ny1z1IhELswWkg_DhfJdQsi8dqms4WFgqXo_kYs6PUhj1K_RGcjGbCNoxz7BGWYDPWWawiEaoVmot8vJC2BEqWYjRcmjzp3X9c_wGCYclq0fyTZugCLIVmC8hLxxv3wplOTTIKOh5Sf0XqKkNOrqHKZ5ABHWHqkafTjE0WDcZQcTJaXA/s320/IMG-20210812-WA0039.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif2pj4y_zD0CzcZRYceK0HbVQ896B9wo1d64N9W28AY2EWOTODowDdX2zPJAnFKgF34v6B0cI94zy7LwRyhnrqEl8vqlAWtlprgXCAbjktt_7WDyktNBdDMPlk1Bx7vtduaq_vx4_9rhT0fhRC5AvPARrypa6Gb8CLKmANPuAKZE7M7MNE5MFfwxndrg/s1080/IMG_20220404_060112.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1035" data-original-width="1080" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif2pj4y_zD0CzcZRYceK0HbVQ896B9wo1d64N9W28AY2EWOTODowDdX2zPJAnFKgF34v6B0cI94zy7LwRyhnrqEl8vqlAWtlprgXCAbjktt_7WDyktNBdDMPlk1Bx7vtduaq_vx4_9rhT0fhRC5AvPARrypa6Gb8CLKmANPuAKZE7M7MNE5MFfwxndrg/s320/IMG_20220404_060112.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Flags and Stampshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06350325346659297692noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295916586089350708.post-69924883882183618362019-04-29T04:04:00.002-07:002021-09-24T07:55:27.271-07:00Rupees Fifty Banknotes: National Flag & Gandhi Stories<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Fifty banknote was first introduced on 16<sup>th</sup> September 1975. The new
note depicted the Parliament Building at New Delhi having a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">bare Flag-pole, i.e.,</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">without the National Flag</b>, on the
reverse. Governor S. Jagannathan was the first signatory, followed by K.R.
Puri, M. Narsimhan, and I. G. Patel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Flag omission was rectified in 1980 during the tenure of Governor<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I. G. Patel.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> The National Flag now appears on the Flag-pole over the Parliament
House</b>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The legend <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Satyameva
Jayate</i></b>, i.e., ‘truth alone shall prevail’, also came to be incorporated
under the Ashoka Pillar emblem for the first time. The watermark continued to
be the Lion Capital, Ashoka pillar with spinning wheels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">On <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">14<sup>th</sup> March</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1997</b>, a new 50 Rs note under the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘Mahatma Gandhi Series’</b> was introduced.
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The National Flag is now bigger in size in
its position of honour.</b> The banknotes of this series bear the portrait of
Mahatma Gandhi on the obverse with enhanced security features being introduced in
phased manner. The watermark has also been changed to depict the Gandhi
portrait. Governor Rangarajan was the first signatory of the notes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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name <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘M. K. Gandhi’ </b>below the
portrait of<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Gandhi</b>. </span></div>
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name <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">M. K. Gandhi</b> was subsequently
changed to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘Mahatma Gandhi’ </b>(when
Bimal Jalan was the Governor of RBI)<b>.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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year 2005 onward the Mahatma Gandhi series notes have period/date of printing
at the bottom of the reverse side.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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be recalled that in 1996, former Chief Election Commissioner T.N. Sheshan, wanted
portrait of Gandhi to be debarred from the Banknotes to curb the use of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Gandhian
Method”</i></b> in elections. <o:p></o:p><br />
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under Right to Information Act, 2005 have since been raised as to why RBI has
used the word ‘Mahatma’ since the title was never officially conferred on him.
(‘Weird Wallet’: Without Reserve / October-December 2013). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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April 2006, RBI introduced ’Star Series’(*) banknotes in the number panel to
avoid the cost involved in reprinting of the same serial number notes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘₹’</b> for Rs. was introduced for the
first time in 2012; Governor D. Subbarao.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2017, Governor Urjit Patel was the last signatory.<span style="mso-tab-count: 7;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 8;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Flags and Stampshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06350325346659297692noreply@blogger.com153tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295916586089350708.post-1691473642183889672019-04-11T10:44:00.000-07:002019-05-11T12:44:52.944-07:00Flags in Grief: Flags at Half-Mast, Flag Draped Caskets and Funeral Cortege<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
origin of the <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">custom</span> of lowering a flag
at <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">‘</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">half-mast’ to indicate mourning is a little unclear. I</span>ts observance appears to date back to the sixteenth century, as a
custom of the sea, which has spread to the land and became universal. A sailors superstition perhaps, the <b>flag of mourning</b> is flown at <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">half-mast</span> to leave space for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">death’s imaginary flag </b>to be flown
above it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a sign that death has
conquered, and that the invisible flag of the death is flying over the lowered
colours of the vanquished. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;">The half-staff
tradition has developed important meaning over time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>T</b>he earliest record we have of the lowering of a flag to signify a death
was an occasion in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1612,</b> when the
Master of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><b>'Hearts Ease'</b></i>, William
Hall, was murdered by Eskimos while taking part in an expedition in search of
the North West Passage. On rejoining her consort, the vessel's flag was flown
trailing over the stern as a mark of mourning. On her return to London, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'Hearts Ease'</i> again flew her flag over
the stern and it was recognised as an appropriate gesture of mourning.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>World's First stamps showing a Flag at Half-Mast: Burma 1948</b></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Issued to commemorate the anniversary of the </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">assassination</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> of Burma's leaders in the fight for independence.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">In the United
States, the earliest reference to half-staff, or half-mast, occurred in </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">1799</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">. All Navy vessels were ordered by
the Navy Department to fly the American flag at half-mast when </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">George Washington</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> died. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">A further sign of mourning is to attach </span><b style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">black ribbons</b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"> tied as a bow to the top of the flag. If mourning is to be observed in a parade or procession, where a flag is carried, two streamers of black crepe are attached to the spearhead, allowing the streamers to fall naturally. The use of black crepe in such a manner shall only be by an order of the government.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Flag Code of India stipulates</b> ‘</span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Half-mast is meant hauling down the Flag to one-half
the distance between the top and guy-line and in absence of the guy-line, half
of the staff’. </i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">To achieve this position the flag should be first hoisted to
the peak for an instant and then slowly lowered to the half-mast position, but before lowering the Flag for the day, it
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<span style="font-size: large;">At the time of mourning Flags are draped over the coffins of national heroes. The association of flags with funerals began centuries ago when caskets of Royalty was decorated with symbols of authority.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fffefe; color: #050000; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 17px;">Lord Nelson (1758 – 1805) English naval commander who died during the <b>Battle of Trafalgar (1805)</b></span><span style="background-color: #fffefe; color: #050000; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 17px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fffefe; color: #050000; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 17px;">in the Napoleonic Wars.</span><span style="background-color: #fffefe; color: #050000; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 17px;"> </span></div>
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Funeral Scene is on Atahualpa: Peru 1918</span></span></div>
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National State Mourning was observed when Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the
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immediate His Highness Nawab Balasinor. </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Government of India regret Mahatma Gandhi was victim
of shooting outrage. Gandhiji expired yesterday evening. Cremation will take place Saturday 4 P.M.
Prime minister has broadcast Saturday 31st be observed as day of fasting and prayer
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">This paper will illustrate the unique contribution of Sister Nivedita, who not only propagated
the importance of the need of a National flag for India - her adopted country,
but also introduced a National flag envisioned by her way back in 1904-5</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">. She was an independent thinker far
ahead of her time </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">– an avant-garde flag designer. Her contribution was
as unique as her own life story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">In the late 19</span><sup style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> century, when the national
leaders in India became passionately infused with the spirit of reasserting the
country’s independence, they felt the need for a distinctive national symbol for
India. Sister Nivedita became most proactive when the question of the invention
of a national flag for India began to be discussed in the press. N</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">ivedita advanced her theory
for the </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Vajra</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">as the National flag for India in an
illustrated article - </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">‘The Vajra as
a National Flag’ </i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">published in the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">‘Modern Review for November,1909’</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">She wrote: “Those who
contemplate the desirability of such a symbol, however, seem to be unaware that
already a great many people have taken up, and are using, the ancient Indian
Vajra or Thunderbolt, in this way. When we look at all that a national banner
means, we see the utter impossibility of manufacturing or devising such an
emblem.”</span></div>
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the subject which delved into the question of the invention of a flag for
India. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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relentlessly propagated the need for a pan-Indian national flag during the period
that Rajani Palme Dutt termed as the first great wave of national resurgence.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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universal mindset. Ole Bull (1810-1880) the famous violinist and composer was
caught up in a rising tide of <span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_romantic_nationalism"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Norwegian romantic nationalism</span></a></span></span>, and acclaimed
the idea of Norway as a sovereign state, separate from <span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Sweden</span></a></span></span>—which became a reality in 1905. Bull had
played an important role when the pure ‘red-white-blue’ State flag was hoisted
on all Norwegian fortresses on June 9<sup><span style="mso-text-raise: 5.5pt; position: relative; top: -5.5pt;">th</span></sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1905. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">On the occasion of unveiling
of a statue of Ole Bull, it was Sister Nivedita who drafted the speech for Ms.
Sara Bull on April 4, 1901, praising the “Colours of Freedom</span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">”</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> of the Norwegian Flag.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Women Flag Makers </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">vis-à-vis<b> Flag Inventors</b></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">When we see a flag we generally wonder about its <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">design</span>, <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">colour</span> and <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">graphics</span>.
Rarely do we think how the design first came about in flag form – <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">who first translated the design onto a piece
of cloth.<b> </b></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Surely, the process had to involve very skilled
persons adept at needlepoint. Only someone who is very meticulous, can
translate a virtual concept into a physical form. Fascinating stories of women
flag makers weaving, stitching, embroidering, appliquéing pieces of cloths to
turn them into national pride - their national flags, abound flag history. It
is no surprise that the adage <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">‘behind
every successful flag design there was a woman’ is so apt. <b>But for Nivedita
she was not behind anyone, she was the front-runner.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">The name and fame of most of the women flag makers
remained within the ambit of celebrity seamstresses - <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">‘the first’ – </span>to transfer <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">‘flag
designs’</span>- into real flags. They are not necessarily Flag inventors or
designers.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Many of these splendid women flag-makers have been
immortalized in postage stamps, banknotes, paintings, statues and on various
other myriad objects. Many of them, the awe-inspiring ladies have been promoted
as patriotic role models for young generations in their respective
countries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">In India, however, the fact of the matter is Nivedita’s
contribution as first flag designer (not just flag maker) was not known amongst
vast majority of people. Prof. Suniti Kumar Chatterji in an article published
in the Modern Review for June 1931 had mentioned very briefly about Nivedita’s suggestion
in which the Thunderbolt and the Lotus were included, to symbolise the
spiritual aspirations of India. Prof.Chatterji wrote the article in response to
the questionnaire issued by Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya, the Convener of the Flag
Committee of the Congress on 23 April,1931. It was perhaps, after the release
of <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk1468878">Pravrajika Atmaprana’s </a>book “Sister Nivedita” in
1961, that the glimpses of Nivedita’s flag first appeared. The late Sankari
Prasad Basu, scholar, writer, researcher and critic in a series of articles “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nivedita O Jatiya Andolan Prasongey</i>’
published in instalments in Bengali weekly ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Desh</i>’
in 1980s, lamented that none of the so-called great historians in India, not even
in Publications Division’s booklet “Our Flag” first published in January 1950, cared
to acknowledge or give Nivedita her due credit. I felt honoured that Sankari
Prasad Basu very kindly mentioned my name in his book “Nivedita Lokmata” (vol
2, page 156) about my initiative in recording Nivedita’s contribution in the
World body of Flag Research, USA. Good news is this that off-late there have
been several books published on Indian flag which have dedicated chapters on
Nivedita’s flag, this includes Publications Division’s “Our National Flag”,1991
penned by my friend the Late Lt. Cdr. KV Singh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have already mentioned <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sister Nivedita</span> played a pivotal role
in organising the anti-partition movement of 1905 and plunged into the <i>Swadeshi
</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">movement.</span> She devised a
distinctive pan-Indian National Flag to rally around.</span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"> “India appears to be waking up in these days…. The
people are feeling their power. I think Curzon has broken the British Empire” </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">- wrote Nivedita on 13 Sept. 1905.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Sister Nivedita conceived the
idea of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vajra</i> flag during
a visit to Bodh Gaya her third in 1904, in the company of Jagadish Chandra
Bose, Rabindranath Tagore, Jadunath Sarkar, Swami Sankarananda and Mathuranath
Sinha.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"> The idea of the national emblem was inspired by
the ancient symbol of the <i>Vajra -</i> a symbol of Buddha that implies ‘The
Selfless Man’. It was the weapon of Lord <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Indra</span>. The thunderbolt is the symbol of renunciation and service.
According to legend, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vajra</i> was
created from the bones of Rishi Dadhichi. It is a symbol of supreme sacrifice. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vajra</i> is also associated with Goddess
Durga.</span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On 1 December
1904 in a letter written to Miss MacLeod, Nivedita mentioned her preference of
“thunderbolt” as our National symbol. I</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">n a second letter dated
February 5, 1905 she wrote to Miss MacLeod:<i> “We have chosen a design for a
National Flag – the Thunderbolt – and have already made one. Unfortunately, I
took the Chinese war-flag as my ideal, and made it black on red. This does not
appeal to India, so the next is to be yellow on scarlet”</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">The final design of the flag adorned the symbol of the
<i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Vajra</span> </i>placed in between
the words <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">‘<i>Bande</i>’ </span>and <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">‘<i>Mataram</i>’ in Bengali </span>with ‘<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">108 <i>jyotis </i>or flames’ embroidered
along the outer periphery. </span></span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">The number 108 is considered
to be most auspicious for both Hindus and Buddhists</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">.<b> </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“108”<b>
</b></span>is a perfect three-digit multiple of three, its components adding up
to <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">nine</span>, which is the sum of
triple threes. <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Three<b> </b></span>is
Trinity that represents supreme balance in the form of creation, maintenance
and destruction or transformation. The traditional <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">japa-malas</i> or prayer-beads have 108 beads that are used to count
the repetitions of prayers, chants or devotions. The song <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Bande-Mataram</span></i> meaning ‘Hail to the
Mother’ was composed in 1876 by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee and incorporated in
his novel ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ananda Math</i>’ (Abode of
Bliss) in 1882. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">During the anti-partition movement in Bengal, “Bande
Mataram” also spelled as “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vande Mataram</i>”
became the ‘war cry’ of national resurgence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vajra</i> flag was embroidered by her pupils.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Nivedita’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vajra</i>
flag was publicly displayed in the Calcutta Congress Exhibition in December
1906. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">The Flag is now preserved in the Acharya Bhavan
Museum, Kolkata, the erstwhile residence of Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose. In
spite of efforts of the museum administration to maintain the Flag in apple-pie
order, the vagaries of climate had taken its toll on the century old silk satin
flag.</span><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 2014 the
original flag was sent to INTACH laboratory for conservation and restoration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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The flag made of pure Indian silk measuring
3’6” x 3’6”, has been restored recently in 2015. It is now back in its place of
pride in the <i>Acharya Bhavan </i>Museum of Sir J. C. Bose Trust, Kolkata<o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Nivedita’s flag and
the subsequent other two flags with inscriptions <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">‘<i>Bande Mataram’</i><b> </b></span>did not find much support and
ultimately relegated to history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">References:<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">The Modern Review</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"> for
November 1909<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">The Modern Review</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"> for
June 1931<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Our Flag</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">, Publications
Division, January 1950<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Sister Nivedita</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">, Pravrajika
Atmaprana, 1961<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Desh</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">, 30 October 1982.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Nivedita Lokmata</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">. Sankari Prasad
Basu, Ananda Publishers, 1987 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Our National Flag</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">, Lt. Cdr. KV
Singh, Publications Division,1991<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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International Congress of Vexillology</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">, Sydney, 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Patrice de La Condamine. 2017, (Women and Flags, 27th Int. Congress of
Vexillology, London).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(228 , 234 , 239); border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; padding: 0cm;">Scholarly study of all aspects of flag is Vexillology. The term was coined in 1957 by Late Dr Whitney Smith from the Latin word vexillum for flag. T</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(228 , 234 , 239); color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">he Flag Institute, UK defines Vexillology as the scientific study of flags and related emblems. It is concerned with research into flags of all kinds, both modern and historical, the creation of a body of practice for flag design and usage, and of a body of theory of flag development.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since time immemorial man has felt the need of a sign or symbol to distinguish himself, his family, his tribe, his country, and such symbols have taken many differing forms, of which one is the flag. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">very country has a National flag. Today, there is no country in the world which does not have a National flag. It is an explicit outward symbolic expression of how a country sees itself. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Flags became wide spread symbols of national identity from early 19</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 7.2pt; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre;">th</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> century. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Before the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">French Revolution of 1789, it was monarchy and not the common people, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">who had a flag. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">With the advent of ‘Nation-State’ concept and the ensuing growth </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">of nationalism - flags have </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;"> become a globalised phenomenon. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Flags are ‘short hand of history’. The relevance of the adage of Harry Truman; </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the only</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre;"> thing</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> new in the world is the history you don’t know” </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">is amply established</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> in the</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> study of flags. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">flag is something more than a coloured piece of cloth (bunting)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;"> of which </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">it is made. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">It incarnate </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">s something spiritual. Intrinsically a flag may be </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">valueless but </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">extrinsically a national flag is </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">priceless. In most countries, people </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">feel </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">that the national flag belongs to the citizens and,</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">therefore, they articulate this </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">by waving it in innumerable social settings which manifest the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">existence and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">glorification </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">of the country.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Nowadays, it has become a trend to wave the flag colours profusely to cheer their</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> favourite </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">teams in the Olympics and other international sports events.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Flags are truly inseparable from society. The serious study of flags is one of the </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">newest </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">pursuits available to those who take an intimate interest in the world </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">around them; </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Study of a flag is A BIT LIKE BIRD WATCHING; is that it involves Spotting, identification,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> classification, and some knowledge of backgrounds, type & various other features </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">their functions.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> IT IS ALSO A BIT LIKE HISTORY; is that it includes some understanding of past events </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;"> how they came about. In fact, story of flags is mostly interwoven with historical events </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">reflecting our struggles, aspirations and hopes. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">IT IS A BIT LIKE GEOGRAPHY too; is that one has to know his way around the world, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">his </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">own </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;"> country, and even obscure places.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A vexillologist collects, preserves, organizes and publicises flag information. For him</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> the </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">flag</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;"> study is not just restricted on collecting the real flags only but from a plethora</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;"> of other </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">artifacts</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> and materials, namely, books, archival documents, news-papers, advertisements</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> and </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">many </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">other conventional/unconventional sources like; postage stamps, medals, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">coins & </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">currency notes, match box labels, propaganda/publicity leaflets, cigarette</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;"> cards, and so on </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">and so forth. In another word he embraces a rainbow of all </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">collecting arena.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">are held </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">each </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;"> two years under the auspices of the International Federation of </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">Vexillological </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">Associations </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">(FIAV). The ICVs consist mainly of lectures, presentations </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">and workshops by </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">the leading flag </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">experts who have the opportunity to present </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">their research and activities to </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">their international </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;"> peers. The author represented </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">India in three consecutive ICVs, the only</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;"> Indian to do so, at </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">Rotterdam (25th ICV, 2013),</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;"> Sydney (26th ICV, 2015) and in London (27th ICV, 2017). </span></div>
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year, the 27<sup>th</sup> International Congress of Vexillology (ICV) held at the Imperial College, South Kensington,
London from 7<sup>th</sup> -11<sup>th</sup> August attracted about 300+ delegates from 38+
different countries where 42 lectures were delivered. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">It was such a pleasure meeting old friends and new, and all had a great time - despite the best efforts of the good old British weather!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">International Congress of Vexillology (ICV)s are held every two years under the auspices of the International Federation of Vexillological Associations (FIAV). FIAV is an association of 60 + Flag societies and flag research centres from 43+ countries. ICVs consist mainly of lectures, presentations and workshops by</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><b style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">the world’s leading flag experts who have the opportunity to present their research and activities to their international peers.</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">International Congress of Vexillology(ICV)s are held every two years under the auspices of the International Federation of Vexillological Associations (FIAV). FIAV is an association of 60 + Flag societies and flag research centres from 43+ countries. ICVs consist mainly of lectures, presentations and workshops by</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the world’s leading flag experts who have the opportunity to present their research and activities to their international peers.</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Attendance at the Congress and the excursions to flag-related sites and various social functions provide the forum to deepen relationships with other vexillologists who have similar interests, and the opportunity for ideas to be cross-fertilised by contact with peers who have different specialisations.</span></span></div>
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India, Mr Sekhar Chakrabarti, a well known vexillologist participated as an
invitee to the 27<sup>th</sup> ICV and presented his well researched paper on
aspects of Indian National Flag which was highly appreciated by the esteemed audience.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> He has earned the distinction of being the sole Indian delegate to present his papers in three consecutive ICVs viz. the 25th ICV at Rotterdam, Netherlands in
2013, the 26<sup>th</sup> ICV at Sydney, Australia and the 27<sup>th</sup> ICV in
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #595959; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica neue" , "arial"; letter-spacing: -0.5px;">Since 1969, t</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141412; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">he Fédération internationale des associations vexillologiques (FIAV) an international federation of </span><a href="http://fiavorg.hypermart.net/fiav-member-websites/" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #fba518; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">52 regional, national, and multinational vexillological associations and institutions</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #141412; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> across the globe.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #595959; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica neue" , "arial"; letter-spacing: -0.5px;"> has sponsored the biennial International Congresses of Vexillology (ICV). Every two years the world’s flag people come together to discuss the subject they love best, flags, hear talks on various vexillological subjects and socialise. </span></span></div>
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International Congress of Vexillology (ICV27) from 6-11 August 2017, at </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129;">Huxley Building, Imperial
College, 180 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ</span><span style="color: #1d2129;"> . </span></span><a href="http://www.icv27.co.uk/" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">http://www.icv27.co.uk</a></div>
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Here is the full programme, list of the speakers and the titles of their topics to be presented during the Congress. </div>
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Registration<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Venue: Huxley
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">1800-2000
Informal get-together<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Venue:
FiveSixEight, Beit Quadrangle, 2 Prince Consort Rd, Kensington, London SW7 2BB<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">MONDAY 7
AUGUST<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Opening Ceremony / official ICV27 photograph<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Queen's Lawn, Imperial College</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Conference Speakers;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">1030-1100 </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>Annie Platoff </b>(USA)</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> : Little Leninists: flags, symbols, and the
political socialization of Soviet children<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">1100-1130 </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>Tiago José
Berg</b> (Brazil)</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> :
Vexillology with high school students<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">1130-1200 <b>Ted
Kaye</b> (USA) : American city flag redesign - a welcome change<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harrington </b>(Canada)</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> : Flags and
the Anniversaries of 2017 - myths, mistakes, misconceptions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Christopher Maddish</b> (USA) : Colour coding and new vexillological avenues for flag
design<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Pierre-Jean Guionin</b> (France): The new edition of Album des pavillons et des marques
distinctives<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">1500-1530
<b>Victor Lomantsov</b> (Russia) : Flags of trade-unions' sport societies in the USSR<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">1600-1630 </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Sekhar
Chakrabarti</span></b><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><b> (India): Variant of
dominant political party flag as national flag - confusions and controversies:
a case study</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>John Cartledge</b> (UK) : Red for danger<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Welcome barbecue includes celebration toast marking the 50th Anniversary of the
Inception of FIAV (ICV2, Rüschlikon, 1967)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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terrace, Baden Powell House, 65-67 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London SW7
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<b>Ralph Bartlett</b> (Australia) : Flags by King for Country<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Rachel Phelan</b> (Ireland) : What's up with the big green flag? The conservation of the flag
of the Irish Republic<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Roberto Breschi</b> (Italy) : A vexillological treasure in Florence, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Manuela Schmöger</b> (Germany) : kommunalflaggen.eu - a Wiki about municipal flags<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tradition, ideology, sources of power and influence in flag studies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">1200-1230<b>
Alan Hardy</b> : The standard colour set, a common ratio, contrast and
individualities<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Cédric de Fougerolle</b> (France) : Ex-libris and vexillology<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Ladislav Hnát</b> (Czech Republic) : Party flags, colours and logos in the 8th European Parliament<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Pluethipol Prachumphol</b> (Thailand) : History of the Thai flag<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Slovenian Vexillological Association : ICV29 bid - supporting presentation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Genealogical Society of Ireland : ICV29 bid - supporting presentation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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25th FIAV General Assembly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Full day excursion to Greenwich<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Arrive Greenwich Park (Blackheath Gate) for a guided walking tour including
Royal Observatory (Prime Meridian, Flamsteed House, great views), Old Royal
Naval College (Painted Hall and Chapel), Cutty Sark<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lunch - Davy's Wine Bar, Greenwich<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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National Maritime Museum: 'Flags in the NMM: an introduction', a talk by
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Westerhoven</b> (The Netherlands)</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> Polderboard
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">0930-1000 </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>Bruce Berry</b></span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><b> </b>(South Africa): The beloved green and white - (white)
Rhodesia’s search for a unique symbol of identity<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Stoyan Antonov</b> (Bulgaria) : Flags of Bulgarian municipalities<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Hervé Calvarin </b>(France) : Doubts and certainties in vexillology<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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David Chkheidze</b> (Georgia) : The flags of contemporary Georgia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Aleš Brožek</b> (Czech Republic) : The survey of flags used by rowing clubs in the Czech Republic<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Avelino Couceiro Rodriguez </b>(Cuba) : Cuba and Puerto Rico: Two flags, two wings of a
single bird<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Patrice de La Condamine </b>(France): Flags and the woman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Uroš Žižmund</b> (Slovenia): Two flags, two proposals - a new system of national and rank
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<b>Roman Klimeš </b>(Czech Republic) : Symbols of the Bohemian Olympic Committee 1912<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Carlos Alberto Morales-Ramirez</b> (Singapore) : Zoogeographic vexillology of North America -
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<b>Xinfeng Zhao</b> (China) : The flags of Genghis Khan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg </b>(The Netherlands) : Five rings to bring them all - a presentation
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<b>Attila István Szekeres </b>(Romania) : The evolution of the Szekeler flag in the last four
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<b>Theun Okkerse</b> (The Netherlands): The obverse and reverse paradox<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Vexillological Association of the State of Texas : ICV28, San Antonio 2019<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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font-family: "lato" , "helvetica neue" , "arial"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.5px;"> - a ‘private palace of art’ with an extraordinary Arab Hall; </span><a href="https://www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/hyde-park" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b7220b; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Arial; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.5px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 1s ease;" target="_blank"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hyde Park</b></a><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica neue" , "arial"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.5px;"> and the </span><b style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #595959; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Arial; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.5px;">Serpentine</b><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica neue" , "arial"; 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Flags and Stampshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06350325346659297692noreply@blogger.com119tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295916586089350708.post-74410806854433593572016-12-30T04:56:00.001-08:002016-12-30T05:41:39.086-08:00TIBET NATIONAL FLAG AND ITS SYMBOLISM<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">National Flag of Tibet. A Priceless Gift From Sherap Gyatso of Lhadhan Chotrul Monlam Chenmo Trust, Tibetan Monastery. Sarnath.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On 30 November 2016 I was presented a historic Tibetan Flag by Sherap Gyatso, purported to have been flown
during the inauguration ceremony of the first Tibetan Monastery at
Sarnath, Varanasi by the founder Gan Thupten Jungney (Gan Gose La), the
most popular Tibetan Ranzen activist of his time, when His Holiness the 14th
Dalai Lama paid a visit to India to attend the 2500th Buddhist Jayanti
Celebration in 1956.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVXtcHsEQ2c_23OdjxNkdh3dULECE30nZh2leE9w-gVqB5j_DWM26rFF0h4YDn_z3vTvwCtYFrW092D3aE2PtOlY6yVjXO1lXyc7u75eywTb2qEjEFJYd3_YHpSe6MHy8gBAaW3o929Sno/s1600/13thDalaiLama1910.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVXtcHsEQ2c_23OdjxNkdh3dULECE30nZh2leE9w-gVqB5j_DWM26rFF0h4YDn_z3vTvwCtYFrW092D3aE2PtOlY6yVjXO1lXyc7u75eywTb2qEjEFJYd3_YHpSe6MHy8gBAaW3o929Sno/s1600/13thDalaiLama1910.jpg" /><span style="font-size: large;">The Snow Lion Tibetan Flag (Gangs Seng Dar Cha) was adopted by <b>Thubten Gyatso - </b>the 13th Dalai Lama in 1916. </span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The region of Tibet maintained its autonomy until 1951 when, following the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chamdo" title="Battle of Chamdo">Battle of Chamdo</a>, Tibet became <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_Tibet_into_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" title="Incorporation of Tibet into the People's Republic of China">incorporated into the People's Republic of China</a>, and the previous Tibetan government was abolished in 1959 after a failed uprising.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">China has made possessing the Tibetan flag illegal in Tibet since 1959. (Wikepedia).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> However the Tibetan Flag is widely in use by the Tibetan people seeking freedom
from Chinese Rule. The Flag is also used by the Tibetan Government in
Exile, based in Dharamsala, India and at all other Tibetan Monasteries.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbZaZ2gDvSgKvfBtJOaXYUkKRS7drAQGzCRR71ycab713HBFeSdEpNqvwnxLY7_U2YpHbR_jGdfBaczbCv5pyqcyTyIWAKgMMbD4qcVKqX1r_c8Pltxr7smcrbUEfwSXpCxT0I2ZCkv_OX/s1600/Cinderela.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbZaZ2gDvSgKvfBtJOaXYUkKRS7drAQGzCRR71ycab713HBFeSdEpNqvwnxLY7_U2YpHbR_jGdfBaczbCv5pyqcyTyIWAKgMMbD4qcVKqX1r_c8Pltxr7smcrbUEfwSXpCxT0I2ZCkv_OX/s320/Cinderela.jpg" width="320" /></a></span><span style="font-size: large;">A Cinderella stamp issued to commemorate the centenary of the UPU in 1974. </span><br />
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<b>THE SYMBOLISM OF THE TIBETAN FLAG</b><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"> In a letter written to me in 1983, </span></span>Guru Tharchen of the
<b>Tibetan Refugee Centre, Darjeeling</b> narrated the symbolisms of the Flag as follows;</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"> <b>The Snow Mountain</b>: Symbolise the geographical
feature of Tibet surrounded by lofty Himalayas. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><b>The Pair of Lions</b>: the
twin system of the Temporal and Spiritual power. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><b> The Wishing Gem</b>: in
the paws of the lions the rule of law based on the Law-principal of
cause and effect underlying the Ten Golden Precept and the Sixteen
Human-principals, which are the source of infinite benefit and peace. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><b>The Flaming Jewel</b>: over the wishing gem,devotion of the Three Gems
(<i>Triratna</i>) who are endowed with twenty four transcendental attributes. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><b>Two
Flags in Red & Blue</b>: unfailing support of the two guardian deities
known as MAR NAG NYIE. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><b>The Twelve Stripes in Red & Blue</b>: the twelve
descendant of the six originals of Tibet.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"> <b>The Rising Sun</b>: freedom,
happiness and prosperity of the ideals of Buddhism.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><b>The Five Coloured Banner</b>: on the top of the mast, the victory of Golden Phodrang, the Central Government of Tibet, over all the spheres.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><b>The Double Edged Sword</b>: the <i><b>Vajra</b></i> and the L<b>otus</b>, on top of the banner , the incessant appearance of the incarnations of the three of the three <b>Budhisattavas</b>: <b>Avalokitesvara, Monjushri</b> and <b>Vajrapani.</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><b>The Un-bended and Un-ending Mast</b>: the justice of the law without fear or favour.</span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Knot of the White Ribbon</b>: the noble tradition of the Dharma.</span></span></span></div>
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><br /></span></span>
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"> <span style="font-size: large;">However, we have also a simplified version of the Symbolism of the flag.</span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;">1. The white snow mountain in the center depicts the land of the: great nation of Tibet.<br /> 2. The six Red rays emanating from the sun - the six original people of Tibet: the Se,Mu, Dong, Tong, Dru, and Ra.<br /> 3. The blue rays- the commitment to spiritual and secular rule.<br /> 4, The pair of snow-lions: the complete victory of the spiritual and secular government<br />
5. The three sided yellow border: the flourishing of the Buddha's
teachings. the fly-side without border :Tibet's openness to non-Buddhist
thought<br /> 6. The raised jewel :Tibet's reverence for the three Precious Gems: the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha.</span></div>
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Flags and Stampshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06350325346659297692noreply@blogger.com110tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295916586089350708.post-60668227651774187812016-09-24T22:53:00.001-07:002016-12-31T01:02:30.381-08:00Vandalism of the World War-2 photograph of the US victory in the Battle of Iwo Jima<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">VANDALISM UNABATED </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> It seems our Government officials will never learn. Chief Elections
Commissioner, Puducherry in association with Dept of Posts issued a
subsidised Meghdoot Post Card with the morphed photograph of the Indian
flag on the famous photograph of World War II US flag raising at Iwo
Jima.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The iconic photograph was taken on February 23, 1945 by
Joe Rosenthal. It depicts United States Marines raising a U.S.
flag atop Mount Suribachi, during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War
II.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The photograph became extremely popular, being reprinted in
thousands of publications. Later, it became the only photograph to win
the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in the same year as its publication,
and came to be regarded in the United States as one of the most
significant and recognizable images of the war, and quite possibly the
most reproduced photograph of all time.[Wikipedia].</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Over the time
this iconic photograph also became the victim of most "MORPHED
PHOTOGRAPH" in several countries including India.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Little they realize that this kind of PHOTOSHOP tricks do not really help glorify their own patriotic farvour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">WATCH HERE EXAMPLES OF A FEW MORE MORPHED
PHOTOS REPLACING THE US "STARS AND STRIPES" WITH THE INDIAN TRICOLOUR. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha4Gv9veUp6P8Ga5s9koSg0DZzyAe1f9aAib0nu-dPshcVnc74IGsmA3oQCRPjkUVqEx_g2J7c-XsqhlSvl0_cDiGEz-RsM2W8DrkD4wX6RdyuUxlQOTAhSzspdQdWSOU0GdEBsC1wwMwk/s1600/Picture+230.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha4Gv9veUp6P8Ga5s9koSg0DZzyAe1f9aAib0nu-dPshcVnc74IGsmA3oQCRPjkUVqEx_g2J7c-XsqhlSvl0_cDiGEz-RsM2W8DrkD4wX6RdyuUxlQOTAhSzspdQdWSOU0GdEBsC1wwMwk/s320/Picture+230.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-size: large;">The Goan newspapers of 19 December 2011
carried several advertisements on the great occasion of celebrating the
golden jubilee which turned out to be a sheer nonsense , it was found
the image selected by the Goan Government agencies is a FAKE one. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">The
advertisement showed Marines holding high the Indian tricolor in an act of
triumph. If you think the newspaper ad. was
to glorify and well up patriotism, you
are terribly wrong . In fact the
advertisements should be considered as an affront to our dignity.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlqaU7ayeCbxU-gfGzTWV3tIxAextkbfg0JicA5j2j8Nhf_Oehb2FoIi2lls6RhLVORyNfI0Uw3MKQIHnKTgGjLOUSQ1Z3dReFQHWPQqhMkeyI6RTHLayekSWkfpP5YR-CGa3HzdGuUZ9H/s1600/DRDO_chakra2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlqaU7ayeCbxU-gfGzTWV3tIxAextkbfg0JicA5j2j8Nhf_Oehb2FoIi2lls6RhLVORyNfI0Uw3MKQIHnKTgGjLOUSQ1Z3dReFQHWPQqhMkeyI6RTHLayekSWkfpP5YR-CGa3HzdGuUZ9H/s400/DRDO_chakra2.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">In
the recent past the same art work made
by some braindeads in the government agencies had revealed how an</span> <span style="line-height: 150%;">immortal
photograph that came to symbolize the
courage and indomitable will of American people in World War II in the Pacific had
been unashamedly vandalized. Even the <b>'Fake art work'</b> was published by </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">the <b>Defence Research and
Development Organisation</b> (DRDO - an
agency under the Ministry of Defence, Government of India) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">It seems Government
Departments just won’t learn.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span><b>Heroes of the War in
the Pacific</b></span></div>
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<b> </b><span style="font-size: medium;">The US stamp was issued just five months after the
Flag-Raising atop <b>Mt. Suribachi in Iwo Jima</b>. On the day of issue, people stood patiently in lines stretching
for city blocks on a sweltering July day in 1945 for a chance to buy the
beloved stamp. For many years, this was the biggest selling stamp in the
history of the US Post Office. (Over 137 million sold.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">A retouched copy of the original photograph. Issued in 1995
to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the first Iwo Jima stamp.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">During World War II, exactly <span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif";">seventy one</span> years ago – U.S. fighting
forces displayed extraordinary courage and determination in winning the war in
the Pacific. But it was on the island of <b>Iwo Jima</b> that a singular event
occurred that would come to symbolize for all time American valour in the long
bitter fight against the Japanese</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">. With Japan’s
home islands sighted squarely in their minds, as the next target for American
warplanes, the U.S. determined that the volcanic island of <b>Iwo
Jima</b> was vital to the US goal. The only island in its region suitable for
an airfield. <b>Iwo Jima</b> was already the site of two operational Japanese
air strips, when the US Marines began their invasion on 19 February 1945. On
February 23 – after clawing their way up <b>Mt. Suribachi</b> under relentless Japanese fire – Marine
raised a small <b>American flag</b> on the summit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> The sight of the American flag 'The <b>Old
Glory</b>' waving in the breeze evoked cheers from Marines.
Offshore, U.S. warships blew their whistles in tribute. Few hours later,
as a larger flag was being raised on the <b>Mt. Suribachi</b>, the Associated Press
photographer<b> Joe Rosenthal</b> took the memorable picture of the event and became
the most famous of the Pacific war. <b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The photograph was extremely popular, being reprinted in thousands of
publications and came to be regarded in the United States
as one of the most significant and recognizable images of the war, and possibly
the most reproduced photograph of all time.</b> </span></div>
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Flags and Stampshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06350325346659297692noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295916586089350708.post-60271552841371955302016-07-21T02:57:00.001-07:002016-07-21T03:05:01.243-07:00Flags at Sea: Ensigns<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> William Crampton in his book “The World of Flags” wrote
“The use of flags at sea was the beginning of the flags as they are
known today, since they were actually flown from masts and staffs rather
than merely held in hand”.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> Since time immemorial, flags have always been
used at sea in </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;">trading vessels
(merchant ships) and ‘men-of-war’ (warships)</span>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="color: black;">The </span><span style="color: red;"><i>‘Age of Discovery’</i>
</span> saw the development of heraldic sails, ie, ones painted with armorial
devices all over. The armorial devices symbolic of nationality
ultimately gave away to modern <span style="color: blue;"><b><i>Flags at Sea.</i></b></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;">
</span><span style="color: blue;">At sea</span>
there has grown up etiquette of how the flags should be used and where
they should be hoisted and the occasions when they are used. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">The term <b><span style="color: blue;">‘ENSIGN’</span></b> is derived from Greek <span style="color: blue;"><b>‘<i>Semeion</i>’</b></span>, Latin equivalents <span style="color: blue;"><b>‘<i>Signus</i>’</b></span> and <b><span style="color: blue;">‘<i>Insigne</i>’</span></b>
is the distinguishing National flag worn by ships at or near the stern.
According to Late E. M. C. Barraclough, foremost flag historian, <span style="color: blue;">the
term <b>'Ensign'</b> was first used by the <b>British Navy </b>way back in 1574.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">White Ensign (War Ship) - <span style="color: red;">Red Ensign (Merchant Ship)</span> - <span style="color: #073763;">Blue Ensign (Ship on Govt. duty)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The <span style="color: red;">Spanish Ensign </span>(1516 - 1785); The <span style="color: red;"><i>Cross of Burgundy</i></span> - The Saltire Raguly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Many National Flags of today were, in fact, first created as <span style="color: blue;">Ensigns</span> for use <span style="color: blue;">at sea</span><span style="color: blue;">.</span></span><br />
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discharges a dual function; it shows the Nationality and the function of
the ship, for example a warship, a merchant ship or a ship in
government service, namely, Coast Guard, Coastal/River Police, Customs,
Private Yachts and so forth. Most countries, particularly within the
Commonwealth Member countries have three or more different ensigns – one
for the warships (white), one for the merchant ships (Red) and one used
by ships in government duties (Blue). Often these ensigns are further
differentiated by superimposing (defacing) the ensigns with the ‘badges’
or ‘emblems’ of the particular organization the ship belongs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The German Imperial <i>Reichskiegsflagge </i>(War Flag; 1903-1921) was based on Naval Ensign of Prussia dating back to Teutonic Knights.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Jack” is the name given to the “Flag” flown on a small vertical spar (pole) at the stem or on the bowsprit of a warship.</span></div>
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Barraclough, the internationally
renowned vexillologist writes ‘although at first ‘Jacks’ were flown from
the mast-head of a ship, it soon became the practice to fly them from
the ‘sprit-mast’ which was fixed to the bowsprit. It was often been
thought that the “flag” is called a “Jack”
because it flies from the ‘Jack-staff’, but actually the ‘staff’ is
called a “Jack-staff” because the “Jack Flag” flies from it. Likewise,
the British “Union Flag” is most often wrongly referred to as “Union
Jack”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Most countries use the diminutive of their National flag as ‘Jack’ </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Scandinavian </span>countries State flags and Jacks are 'swallow-tailed' or </span><span style="font-size: medium;">'split' at the fly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Some countries have/had ‘historic’ or other special 'flag' for use as ‘Jack’ at sea.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;">The Great Star Flag 1837</span></b></div>
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1818 act established that the Great Star Flag include a star for each
state and 13 stripes. Capt. Samuel C. Reid, a naval hero of the war of
1812, recommended arranging the stars into one 'large Star pattern', a
common design in the 19th. century.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Greece</span> has two Flags, one with the white ‘Greek Cross’ on blue field for use as ‘Jack’ at sea and the other with '</span><span style="font-size: medium;">nine
horizontal stripes of blue and white and to the upper side of the
flagpole, there is a white cross on a blue background’ for use as
‘Ensign’</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The U. S. Coast Guard Ensign and Jack </b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: medium;">The badge has the motto ‘<i>Semper Paratus</i>’ (Always Prepared) and the date ‘1790’.<span style="font-size: x-small;"> The post card commemorates the 175 th. Anniversary of the U.S. Coast Guard.</span></span></div>
Flags and Stampshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06350325346659297692noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295916586089350708.post-28826959213586240382016-05-02T23:52:00.001-07:002016-05-05T11:48:54.475-07:00Monumental Flag-masts And Giant Flags of India<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Concepts of Monumental Flag-poles & Giant Flags</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Are Not New</span></span></b> <span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif";">In </span>India.</span></span><u><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></u></b></h3>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><b>156 ft. </b>tall flag-staff off the coast of Bay of Bengal
in Chennai (formerly, Madras) had enjoyed the distinction of being the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘Tallest & Oldest’</b> flag-mast, before the recent craze for
gigantic Flag-poles<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>began. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">In<b> 1687, Elihu Yale</b> the second Governor of Madras, hoisted the <b>Union
Jack</b> for the first time on the flag-mast at <b>Fort St. George</b>, Madras (present day Chennai),
replacing that of the East India Company’s flag<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> (the original wooden-mast was replaced by a
steel-mast of equal height in 1994)</span>.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> On <b>August 15, 1947</b>, it
was on this flag-mast that the <b>Indian Tricolour</b> was hoisted for the
first time and since then it has become the government venue of the Independence Day Flag
hoisting ceremony of Tamil Nadu state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Elihu Yale</b>
(1649 – 1721) - Governor of the East India Company settlement in Madras
and a benefactor of the Collegiate School of Connecticut, USA, which in
1718 was renamed <b>Yale College</b> in his honor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">New Delhi's highest <b>Monumental Flagpole</b> <b>207 ft.</b> hoisted by the Flag Foundation of
India at </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Connaught Place.</b> </span></div>
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<b> The largest National Flag in the country at the Central Park in Connaught Place in New Delhi.</b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span></span><br />
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Jindal With Cdr. K.V.Singh.</span></b></span></span></a></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> President of the Flag Foundation of India, hoisted the <b>largest
flag in the country </b>and <b>highest flagpole in New Delhi</b>, measuring <b>207</b> ft.
in height, at <b>Central Park in Connaught Place </b>on 7 March 2014. <b>The monumental flag
measures 60 ft. in width and 90 ft. in length and weighs 35 kg.</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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There are 12 such flag poles in the country but
this national flag is the largest , said <b>Cdr. K.V. Singh</b> of the Flag
Foundation of India. The Flag Foundation of India and the New Delhi
Municipal Council (NDMC) worked together on the project. The flag pole has been designed keeping in mind the geometry of
Connaught Place, Singh said. “We are trying to create a monument for the
national flag in the capital of the country,” he added.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Soaring At Jaipur, Rajasthan</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Special Cover released on<b> Biggest Indian Flag on tallest flag-pole in Rajasthan</b> at Central Park, Jaipur at Rajpex 2015 on<b> 26th January 2015.</b></span></div>
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Cancellation in form of Digital Franking using Remotely Managed
Franking System (RMFS). The Meter Frank depicts National Flag and Slogan
<b>'Highest National Flag in Rajasthan'</b> and <b>'Greetings on Republic Day'. </b>The meter frank is serially numbered from 1 to 1000.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLM0ltbWU_OukU_oSiQUvi5XASvtTHfiJRHNwJ_MLAhS46YwtrE3FqzCyNTClUoNE0-L2smzb3namd9kI0buyPYjEzSQj-SIcltplLWlfvg3BoKI3HLKQSI-JACenNaUF8V5JHYY1AML6y/s1600/Tiranga+in+Sound+and+Light+kol.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLM0ltbWU_OukU_oSiQUvi5XASvtTHfiJRHNwJ_MLAhS46YwtrE3FqzCyNTClUoNE0-L2smzb3namd9kI0buyPYjEzSQj-SIcltplLWlfvg3BoKI3HLKQSI-JACenNaUF8V5JHYY1AML6y/s1600/Tiranga+in+Sound+and+Light+kol.jpg" width="181" /></a>The <b>National Flag </b>is
hoisted at a height of <b>206 feet</b> throughout the year at Natural
Heritage, Central Park, Jaipur. <b>The flag is 48 feet wide and 72 feet in
length weighing about 25 Kgs.</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The monumental flag was hoisted for the
first time by the then Chief Minister of Rajasthan Mr. Ashok Gehlot in
October 2011. Hoisting the flag, the chief minister said that national
flag is a symbol of dignity and pride. He also asked the citizens to
guard the dignity of national flag even at the cost of their lives. He
also thanked <b>Flag Foundation of India</b> to get right for common man to hoist the flag. </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Another <b>Towering Flag</b> (Tallest And Largest) Tricolour at Ranchi Inaugurated on 23rd January 2016. Standing tall at 293 ft, and measuring 99 x 66ft in size.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ranchi's Ill-fated Towering Flag </span></span></span></b></span></div>
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January 2017, the BSF is planning to put up the tallest national flag
near the Attari-Wagah Joint Check Post (JCP). So high, a top BSF
official said, that at 350 feet, “it can be seen both from Lahore as
well as Amritsar”.<br />
The move is part of the BSF’s expansion plans for the visitors’
gallery at the site of the iconic Retreat ceremony, said Ashok Kumar
Yadav, the officiating Inspector General of BSF’s Punjab Frontier.
Amritsar and Lahore are approximately 18 km away from the international
border, he added.<br />
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“At that height, the flag would have to be proportionately sized,
therefore it would also be the largest Tricolour. There is an intense
atmosphere of patriotism during the Retreat ceremony, and the crowds are
highly charged. The flag will serve as a beacon for them,” Yadav told <a href="http://indianexpress.com/">The Indian Express</a>.<br />
- See more at:
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BY
January 2017, the BSF is planning to put up the tallest national flag
near the Attari-Wagah Joint Check Post (JCP). So high, a top BSF
official said, that at 350 feet, “it can be seen both from Lahore as
well as Amritsar”.<br />
The move is part of the BSF’s expansion plans for the visitors’
gallery at the site of the iconic Retreat ceremony, said Ashok Kumar
Yadav, the officiating Inspector General of BSF’s Punjab Frontier.
Amritsar and Lahore are approximately 18 km away from the international
border, he added.<br />
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“At that height, the flag would have to be proportionately sized,
therefore it would also be the largest Tricolour. There is an intense
atmosphere of patriotism during the Retreat ceremony, and the crowds are
highly charged. The flag will serve as a beacon for them,” Yadav told <a href="http://indianexpress.com/">The Indian Express</a>.<br />
- See more at:
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/at-the-attari-wagah-border-a-national-flag-so-high-it-will-be-seen-in-lahore-2775528/#sthash.7e3mizCv.dpuf</div>
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BY
January 2017, the BSF is planning to put up the tallest national flag
near the Attari-Wagah Joint Check Post (JCP). So high, a top BSF
official said, that at 350 feet, “it can be seen both from Lahore as
well as Amritsar”.<br />
The move is part of the BSF’s expansion plans for the visitors’
gallery at the site of the iconic Retreat ceremony, said Ashok Kumar
Yadav, the officiating Inspector General of BSF’s Punjab Frontier.
Amritsar and Lahore are approximately 18 km away from the international
border, he added.<br />
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“At that height, the flag would have to be proportionately sized,
therefore it would also be the largest Tricolour. There is an intense
atmosphere of patriotism during the Retreat ceremony, and the crowds are
highly charged. The flag will serve as a beacon for them,” Yadav told <a href="http://indianexpress.com/">The Indian Express</a>.<br />
- See more at:
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/at-the-attari-wagah-border-a-national-flag-so-high-it-will-be-seen-in-lahore-2775528/#sthash.7e3mizCv.dpuf</div>
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BY
January 2017, the BSF is planning to put up the tallest national flag
near the Attari-Wagah Joint Check Post (JCP). So high, a top BSF
official said, that at 350 feet, “it can be seen both from Lahore as
well as Amritsar”.<br />
The move is part of the BSF’s expansion plans for the visitors’
gallery at the site of the iconic Retreat ceremony, said Ashok Kumar
Yadav, the officiating Inspector General of BSF’s Punjab Frontier.
Amritsar and Lahore are approximately 18 km away from the international
border, he added.<br />
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“At that height, the flag would have to be proportionately sized,
therefore it would also be the largest Tricolour. There is an intense
atmosphere of patriotism during the Retreat ceremony, and the crowds are
highly charged. The flag will serve as a beacon for them,” Yadav told <a href="http://indianexpress.com/">The Indian Express</a>.<br />
- See more at:
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/at-the-attari-wagah-border-a-national-flag-so-high-it-will-be-seen-in-lahore-2775528/#sthash.7e3mizCv.dpuf</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Raipur Beats The Record Set By Ranchi 5 Months Back</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">105 x70ft. Flag on 82 m tall Post.</span></span></b></span><br />
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Telangana government will unfurl the country’s tallest National Flag in
Hyderabad on the occasion of the state’s Formation Day on June 2.<br />
Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday directed the state
Chief Secretary to make arrangements for unfurling the flag at the
Bathukamma Ghat of Hussain Sagar Lake, a release from his office said.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><b>The Telangana Government will unfurl
the <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">C</span>ountry’s</b> <b>Tallest National Flag at 301 ft. in
Hyderabad on the occasion of the State’s Formation Day on June 2, 2016.</b></span></span></div>
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Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on 3<sup>rd</sup> May, 2016 (Tuesday)
directed the state Chief Secretary to make arrangements for unfurling the flag
at the <b>Bathukamma Ghat of Hussain Sagar Lake</b>, a release from his office said. Noting
that there is a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">National Flag at Ranchi
at a height of 293 feet, Rao said the flag in Hyderabad should be at a height
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">And</span> the "Largest and Tallest Flag" that is in Pipe-line !</b></span></span><br />
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near the Attari-Wagah Joint Check Post (JCP). So high, a top BSF official said,
that at <b>350 feet</b>, <i><b>“it can be seen both from Lahore as well as Amritsar”.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The move is part of
the BSF’s expansion plans for the visitors’ gallery at the site of the iconic
Retreat ceremony, said Ashok Kumar Yadav, the officiating Inspector General of
BSF’s Punjab Frontier. Amritsar and Lahore are approximately 18 km away from
the international border, he added.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>“At that height, the flag would have to be
proportionately sized, therefore it would also be the largest Tricolour. There
is an intense atmosphere of patriotism during the Retreat ceremony, and the
crowds are highly charged. The flag will serve as a beacon for them,”</i> Yadav
told. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://indianexpress.com/">The
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<![endif]--><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Similarly</span>,</b> there is a wrong perception in India that
Pingali Venkayyaa had designed the Indian National flag<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">.</span>
No, it is not true. Pingali did not
design the present national flag of India <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(He was the maker of the Swadeshi flag of 1921)</span>. Albeit,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> most Indians are made to believe the ‘myth’ that
the Indian National Flag - ‘<b><i>The Tiranga</i></b>’ adopted on 22 July 1947 by the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Constituent</span> Assembly was designed
by <b>Pingali Venkayyaa. </b>This is travesty of history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: red;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">historical evidence</span> does not support the theory of just one individual maker of the Indian
National flag. </b>Rather, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the present
flag, like the Freedom Movement, was the work of many hands</b>. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: purple; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">The Flag we fly today was designed by </span><span class="st"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">Mrs. Suraiya </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">Badr-ud-din Tyabji</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> .</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><span style="color: red;"></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">India’s Tiranga flag has become a
recognizable symbol the world over and is a source of great pride to Indians. The
booklet ‘<b>Our</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Flag’</b> published by the
Publications Divisions, Govt. of India (January 1950) states; “The <b>evolution
of the Indian National Flag </b>reflects the political developments in the country
during the 20<sup>th</sup> century……”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span> page 1 (<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Origin)</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: red;"><b>The Flag of
India evolved through a sustained process.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There were many flags already in use in India
and abroad by the Indian exiled revolutionaries, much before Pingaly Venkayyaa
(1876-1963) - a great patriot and an aggressive <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>campaigner of National flag, came up with a
booklet<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘A National Flag for India’ in
1916. <b>Pingali had put forth about 24 designs for the Indian flag in his booklet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: red;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pingali's designs were never able to enthuse Gandhi;
and in his designs, Gandhi saw nothing to stir the nation to its depths.</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Here
are the full stories</span></u></b></span><span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">;</span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span class="uficommentbody"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">1) Sister
Nivedita</span></b></span><span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> (1867-1911) - an
Irish disciple of Swami Vivekananda (born Margaret Noble) devised a square flag
emblazoned with a Vajra (Thunderbolt) and the slogan Bande-Mataram in the
centre in 1905, the year Lord Curzon declared ‘partition of Bengal’. </span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In 1906 on the first anniversary of ‘partition of Bengal’
a tricolor flag was raised by Sir Surendranath Bannerjee , The flag was jointly
designed by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sachindra Prasad Basu</b>
and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sukumar Mitra</b> with the support
of volunteers of Anushilan Society (a secret Society). The flag was made by <b>Kumudini Basu</b>, sister of Sukumar Mitra. The flag was later
hoisted by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dadabhai Naoroji</b> in the
Calcutta Congress in December 1906. Reportedly Pingali Venkayyaa was present as
Congress delegate during the event.</span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A strikingly similar flag was displayed at Stuttgart
Germany in 1907 by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Madam Bikaiji Cama</b>.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bhupendranath
Dutta</b>, younger brother of Swami Vivekananda wrote in one of his well researched book that "<i>It was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hem Chandra Kanungo (Das)</b> - a member of
the Anushilan Samity and ‘in know’ of the Calcutta flag made the Cama’s
flag in Paris".</i> <span style="color: red;"><b>The similarity of the two flags <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">was not a</span> coincidence or
an example of ‘Parallelism in history’. Hem <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Chandra was </span>a member of </b></span></span></span><span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Anushilan Society (</b></span></span></span>a secret society engaged in Bengal<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> in early 1900s). A</span>ll the members of the society had to take an oath <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">of secrecy<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">, as such,</span></span> Hem Chandra <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">never</span> claimed publicly that it was he who made the flag for Madam Cama<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">. B</span>ut his biographers later on came out <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">and </span>revealed how Hemchandra got involved with Cama <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">and made the flag (a variant of the Calcutta flag) for her to wave it at Stuttgart</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"></span>. </b></span></span></span></div>
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Rule flag, 1917</span></b></span><span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">
designed with the approval of Annie Besant, B.P. Wadia, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and
Mohammad<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ali Jinnah.</span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The above described flags<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>evoked limited response amongst the masses and
were used<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>only in certain events during
our early phases of freedom movements. With the passage of time all these flags
relegated to history.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span class="uficommentbody"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Evolution
of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Swaraj </i>Flag (1921-1931) - First
Pan India National Flag.</span></u></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">M.K.Gandhi’s</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(He was not yet
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mahatma</i></b>
then) article published in Young India in April 1921, I quote;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Mr. P Venkayya of
the National College, Masulipatam</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">, has for some years placed
before the public a suggestive booklet describing the flags of the other
nations and offering designs for an Indian National-Flag. But, whilst I have
always admired the persistent zeal with which Mr. Venkayya has prosecuted the
cause of a National-Flag at every session of the Congress for the past four
years, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">he was never able to enthuse me;
and <span style="color: purple;"><u>in his designs I saw nothing to stir the nation to its depths.</u></span></b><span style="color: purple;"> …
It was <b>Lala Hansraj of Jullundur</b></span> who, in discussing the possibilities of
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the spinning wheel</b>, suggested that
it should find a place on our <i>Swaraj-Flag</i>. I could not help admiring the
originality of the suggestion. At Bezwada <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I<span style="color: purple;">
asked Mr. Venkayya to give me a design containing a <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">spinning wheel on a red (Hindu Colour) and Green (Muslim colour)</span>
background.</span> </b>His enthusiastic spirit enabled me to possess a flag in three
hours. It was just a little late for presentation to the All-India Congress
Committee. I am glad it was so. On maturer consideration I saw that the
background should represent the other religions also. Hindu-Muslim unity is not
an exclusive term; it is an inclusive term, symbolic of the unity of all faiths
domiciled in India. If Hindus and Muslims can tolerate each other, they are
together bound to tolerate all other faiths. The unity is not a menace to the
other faiths represented in India or to the world. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">So I suggest that the background should be white and green and red. </b>The
white portion is intended to represent all other faiths.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Take Mahatma Gandhi’s
writings seriously (and why not), it was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gandhi
who took the pivotal role in formulating the first <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Swaraj</i> flag design,</b> where <b><span style="color: red;">Pingali Venkayyaa<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was only responsible for the production of
the first<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“flag”</span></b> . Surely, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pingali was not the inventor of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Swaraj</i> flag</b>. Pingali Venkayya published a booklet titled <b>"A National Flag for India"</b>
in 1916. His passionate obsession for a national Flag for India
compelled the Congress leaders to address the flag issue with greater
depth perhaps for the first time. <b>Pingali Venkayya is and will remain as the
pioneer protagonist of our National flag.</b> </span></span></div>
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designs made by Pingali Venkayyaa. Gandhi did not like any of the flag designs produced by Pingali.</span></span><br />
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<span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><b>In all his 24-designs predominantly with Hindu religious traditions, was a small Union Jack at the upper left corner (Canton)</b>, which was undesirable. It is interesting
to find that the <b>Sister Nivedita’s ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vajra</i>
flag’</b> was also found a place in Pingali’s flag list. </span></span></div>
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resentments about the communal interpretations of the colours of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Swaraj</i> flag, notwithstanding Gandhi’s
approval. So, a 'Flag Committee' was formed in 1931 to recommend and advice a new Flag for India. </span></span><span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span class="uficommentbody"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">India
Post</span></b></span><span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> notoriously known as ‘dead
brains’ and most ignorant of Indian History issued a postage stamp in 2009
in honour of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pingali Venkayyaa. The brochure released by India Post</b> on the occasion projected him as the designer of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Purna
Swaraj</i> Flag and misquoted Gandhi. What a mockery. </span></span></span></div>
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Flag</span></b></span><span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> (1931-1947) was formulated by
the members of the Congress Working Committee chaired by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sardar
Ballavbhai Patel</b> in accordance with the inputs from Jawaharlal Nehru in
Bombay in <b>August 1931</b>. Earlier, the <b>‘Flag Committee – 1931’</b> headed by Dr
Pattabhi Sitaramiyyaa failed miserably to recommend/find a suitable flag design. </span></span><br />
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Note: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pingali
Venkayyaa was not even included in the ‘Flag Committee-1931’, nor he was a member of the Congress Working Committee,</b>
(probably by then; Pingali Venkayyaa had withdrawn himself from the mainstream
politics). <span style="color: purple;"><b>The design of the <i>Purna Swaraj Flag</i> was transferred to <i>Khadi</i> bunting by another Congress volunteer Dr. N. S. Hardikar.</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">Finally in 1947 the
Constituent Assembly set up an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ad hoc</i>
committee under the chairmanship of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dr.
Rajendra Prasad</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to recommend a new
flag of Free India, The Committee unanimously chose <b>Asoka Chakra</b> device in
place of Gandhi’s <i><b>Charkha</b></i>. </span></span><br />
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<span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">The model of the new flag of free India was made</span></span></span><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"> by </span><span class="st"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">Mrs. Suraiya </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">Badr-ud-din Tyabji</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">on 17</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: purple;">July
1947.</span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: medium; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;">(Mrs Tyabji’s husband was the
joint secretary in the Constituent Assembly and grandson of the great Tayabji
who was the President of the Congress party in 1887). </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">Mahatma Gandhi</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">was not too happy with the replacement of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">charkha</i> in the flag</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">He admitted in a statement published in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Harijan</i> that,<b><i> ‘N<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">othing would have lost, if our councillors had never thought of
interfering with the design of the original flag.</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">’ <sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></sup></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></sup>In a statement made
in Lahore on 6 August 1947,</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gandhi
said</b>,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> "</span><i>I </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><i>must say that, if the Flag of
the Indian Union will not embody the emblem of the Charkha<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, I will refuse to salute that flag. <span style="color: purple;"><b>You
know the National Flag of India was first thought of by me,</b></span></span> and </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><i>I cannot conceive of India’s National Flag
without the emblem of the Charkha</i>". </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Attempts at debunking the Pingali Venkayyaa myth had not been very
fruitful.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">When a Belief has been in Circulation, People Find<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> i</span>t Difficult to Negate it, Even when Pointed out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Our History is Rich but our Historians are Poor !</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">United Nations and the National Flag of India</span></b>
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world neither a country nor a territory that is permitted to issue postage
stamps. United Nations stamps are unique in the world of stamp collecting,
since they are issued in three different currencies. UN stamps offer truly
international perspective by helping to focus attention on question of global
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series issued on 26 September 1980. The idea of producing the flags of Member
States had been on UNPA’s mind for a long long time. The stamps designed by Ole
Hamann, Denmark, were executed by Irving Konopiaty of USA. The names of the first
16 countries were drawn by the Secretary-General. There after each year UNPA
released 16 flag stamps as an annual event until all Member’s flag had been
issued in 1989. The stamps were printed in photogravure by Helio Courvoisier S.
A., Switzerland. (Note; The popular “Flag” series resumed again in 1997 to
accommodate the Member Countries admitted after 1989). </span></b>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Indian National Flag appeared in the 6<sup>th</sup>
Group of 16 countries in 1985. The Flag shows 12 spoke Asoka Chakra in place of
24 spokes.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">I wrote to the Chief of the UNPA in 1985 drawing their
kind attention to the difference in the number of wheel spoke on the UN stamp
illustrating the flag of India.</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> The explanations offered in a letter dated 26 Nov, 1985 by Gisela Grunewald - the then Chief of the UN Postal
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image it was necessary to simplify the design by reducing the number of spokes in the wheel….’. Unquote.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">However, the explanation
offered appears to be flimsy, as because UNPA had issued more complex/complicated
‘Flags’ of other nations accurately and correctly. </span><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="text_exposed_show">In fact, this is the</span><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span><span class="text_exposed_show"> only recorded UN Flag Stamp which has been found with image distortion.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Nikhilesh Melkote of <span style="color: #660000;">Bangaluru</span> also received a letter of regret from the Chief of UNPA in 1985 when he pointed out the error.</span></span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Earlier, in a ‘Press Release’
dated 15 August 1980 the UNPA had assured, ‘the flags on stamps would be
identical to the flags flying outside UN Headquarters’. Quote;</span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">“The flags
on the stamps will be identical to the flags flying outside United Nations
Headquarters as of 14 April 1980, except that they will be in true proportions .
….. Ole Hamann, who was then still Chief of the UN Postal Administration, and
Irving Konopiaty, a professional artist with UNPA’s Graphic Design Unit at that
time, collaborated on the designs for the stamps. Achieving dimensional
accuracy and true colour in the designs was such exacting work that it took
months of work before the designs left the drawing board.” </span></b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Unquote.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Subsequent</span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> issues of
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The series ran for several years featuring 24 UN Member States each year until
all Member States were represented. The concept for the UN Coin and Flag series
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">India signed the UN charter on 26 June 1945. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"> The United Nations in its
bid to mark the emergence of India as an Independent nation, held a flag
hoisting ceremony on 16<sup>th</sup> August 1947 where the erstwhile flag of
British-India was replaced by the new flag of independent India in front of the
main entrance of UN HQ building at Lake Success, New York, where fifty-five
flag poles were arranged in a circle with the flags of all Member Nations.</span></span></span></div>
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the country’s new national flag in 1947 to join the fifty-four other UN Member
countries. (Photo courtesy: Library of Congress).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> </span>In India the UN flag is flown along with the national flag on all buildings
on which the Indian national flag is regularly flown on October 24, on the UN Day, except on Rashtrapati Bhawan, the vice
president's house, Parliament House and the Supreme Court building.
Since 1948, October 24 has been celebrated across the globe as the UN Day.The United Nations was established on October 24, 1945 after World War II to promote international cooperation.</div>
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Flags and Stampshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06350325346659297692noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295916586089350708.post-14302027178463389792015-09-22T23:21:00.000-07:002015-09-30T07:36:39.797-07:00Sydney International Flag Congress: 26th International Congress of Vexillology (ICV), 2015: A Memoir<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Vexillology</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> is the scientific study of
flags and related emblems. It is concerned with research into flags of all
kinds, both modern and historical, the creation of a body of practice for flag
design and usage, and of a body of theory of flag development. Vexillology
seeks to understand and explain the important part played by flags in the
modern world. (Flag Institute, UK)</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Every two years</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> <b>flag experts gather to share their
interest and knowledge about flags in International Congress of Vexillology (ICV).</b>
ICVs are held every two years beginning 1965 when the first ICV was held
at Muiderberg, the Netherlands under the auspices of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">International Federation of Vexillological Associations</b> (which is
referred to by its French initials: <span style="color: #660000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FIAV
</b>- <i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Fédération Internationale des Associations
Vexillologiques</span></i>)</span>.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">
</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">ICVs consist mainly of lectures, presentations and workshops by the
world’s leading flag experts who
have the opportunity to present their research and activities to their
international peers.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The 26<sup>th</sup> International
Congress of Vexillology (ICV) was held recently </span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">from 31<sup>st</sup> August - 4<sup>th</sup>
September, 2015 in<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Sydney, Australia,
attended by more than 103 delegates from 25 nations. <a href="http://www.icv26.com.au/index.html">http://www.icv26.com.au/index.html</a> </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">ICV 26</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> consisted <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">33 lectures</b> on a diverse range of flag topics</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> (these
will be published shortly by Flags Australia)</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">, excursions to flag related sites, viz. Sydney Observatory
Hill Flag display (1<sup>st</sup> Sept), visit to Australian War Memorial Annex,
Mitchell, Australian War Memorial and Parliament House in Canberra, Avenue of
Flags on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin (2<sup>nd</sup> Sept), celebrating
Australian National Flag Day & Australian Merchant Navy Day. One participant
from each nation represented at ICV 26 carried their national flag to the
ceremony on 3<sup>rd</sup> Sept at Martin Place, catching up with friends with
a shared interest at an informal FOTW meeting at Barracks on Barrack. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">ICV26
provided ample opportunities to learn new things about flags and their usage,
to meet old friends and to find new ones for social interaction and networking.
As usual tradition ICV 26 culminated in a final banquet on 4<sup>th</sup>
September.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Flags and Stamps”</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> was represented by Sekhar Chakrabarti. He was the sole Indian
participant in Sydney Flag Congress. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mr</b>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ralph Kelly, Chair of the Organising
Committee for ICV 26,</b> in his letter of invitation on behalf of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Flags Australia</b> dated 3 October 2014
wrote; “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Our Sydney International congress
will be honoured to have you attend. I have pleasant recollections of meeting
you in Rotterdam at the 25<sup>th</sup> ICV and I greatly appreciated your
lecture on the ancient symbols of Indian culture. Your scholarship and
contribution to vexillology, philately and national identity in India reflected
in your book <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Indian National Flag
unfurled through Philately</b>, a copy of which is in my personal collection</i>”.
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">On day 2 (Tuesday, 1<sup>st</sup>
September) Mr Chakrabarti delivered his PPT presentation titled<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> “An early 20<sup>th</sup> century Indian
National Flag remembering the contribution of an Irish lady made 110 years ago”.</b>
It was an attempt to unravel one of the little known aspects of an early
proposal for an All India National Flag designed by Sister Nivedita – an Irish
lady, resettled in India.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Jonathan Dixon of ‘Flags Australia’</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> reports in the Flags of the World (FOTW); <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Sekhar Chakrabarti led us to the
contribution of an Irish lady to an early 20th century Indian flag by first
reflecting on the women celebrated as first flag makers of national flags - in
the USA, Philippines, Haiti and Cuba. In contrast, an early proposed Indian
national flag was designed by Sister Nivedita. Born Margaret Noble, she was an
Irish woman in India at a time when the 1905 partition of India prompted the
beginning of the Swadeshi nationalist movement. She was one of the
earliest to suggest that they needed a national flag, and designed a flash
employing a yellow thunderbolt symbol, inspired by the Vedas, on a red field
between 108 flames and Bengali text meaning "hail to the mother”. This
text also appears on later nationalist flags”.</i></span><br />
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<![endif]--><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> Day 3 (2nd Sept): On way to Canberra by bus, seen here
Dr David F. Phillips, Director North American Institute of Heraldic and Flag
Studies, and Prof. Michel Lupant, President, FIAV</span></b>
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As usual tradition ICV 26 culminated in a final banquet on 4<sup>th</sup>
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philatelic example on International Flag Congress - a present from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mr Bruce Berry</b> of the South African
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Flags and Stampshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06350325346659297692noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295916586089350708.post-70685307112594862092015-07-12T11:38:00.000-07:002017-04-27T03:57:10.487-07:00Mahatma Gandhi on the National Flag of India<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), in the eyes of his admirers, “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mahatma</i></b>” (Great Soul). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Mahatma </span></span>Gandhi for the firs</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;">t time came up with his ideas/views on</span> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">the <b>National Flag of India</b> through an article published in ‘Young India’ in April 1921. </span></div>
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flag is a necessity for all nations. Millions have died for it, it is
no doubt a kind of idolatry which it would be a sin to destroy. For a
flag represents an ideal. The unfurling of the <span style="color: red;">Union Jack</span> evokes in the
English breast sentiments whose strength it is difficult to measure. The<span style="color: red;">
Stars and Stripes</span> mean a world to the Americans. The <span style="color: #38761d;">Star and the
Crescent </span>will call forth the best bravery in Islam.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It
will be necessary for us Indians - Hindus, Mohammedans, Christians, Jews,
Parsis, and all others to whom India is their home - to recognise a
common flag to live and to die for”.</span></div>
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Tricolour, known as ‘Swaraj flag’ was first evolved at AICC meeting at
Bejwada in 1921 when a ‘green and red’ flag made by Pingali Venkayyaa and
improved by Mahatma Gandhi with the addition of a white stripe at the
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last, the idea being that the strongest should act as a shield to the
weakest ... to represent the equality of the least of us with the best,
an equal part is suggested to all three colours in the design. ...The </span></sup><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">regulation size of the flag should contain the drawing of a full sized <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">spinning-wheel.</span></span></sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 150%;">In early 1947 the British decided to quit India. </span>Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten of Burma - the last Viceroy and
the first Governor General of India put forward a <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">proposal on <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">24 June 1947 </span>to the <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Congress </span>and <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Muslim League</span> leaders to<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> include the Union Jack </span>at the canton of <span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">their respective</span> N<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">ational flags, so as to</span> reflect the symbolic continuity with Britain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><sup>‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I
have expressed a hope that I would be able to persuade the new
Dominions to have the Union Jack in the upper canton of their flag, as
do other members of the Commonwealth. This design has not been accepted
by either party. I have not pressed the leaders further…..<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jinnah,
in turning down the suggestion, explained that it would be repugnant to
the religious feelings of the Muslims to have a flag with a Christian
Cross alongside the Crescent. Nehru asked if I would mind if Congress
rejected the design on the grounds that although Gandhi, Patel and
others had originally expressed their willingness to accept it, they had
now come to the conclusion that the general feeling among the Congress
extremists was that the leaders were pandering far too much’</i></sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Leonard Moseley in his book <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i>The
Last Days of the British Raj</i></b> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">(</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Harcourt, Brace and
World, Inc.; First Edition 1962)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">writes; </span></div>
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"In the case of the flags for the new Dominions, the
Viceroy had not been inactive. Among his hobbies, along with the compilation of
his family tree, was heraldry and design. He himself sketched and prepared the
design for the flags of both Pakistan and India. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">One was based on the flag of Congress -- with Gandhi's spinning wheel</b>
-- and the other on the Muslim League's crescent. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>To each he added a small Union Jack, one ninth
in area, sewn into the upper canton.</b> He sent them to Jinnah and Nehru for their
approval, as 'helpful suggestions'. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>"Jinnah coldly replied that in no
circumstances could the design be accepted as it would be repugnant to the
religious feelings of the Muslims to have a Christian Cross alongside the
Crescent. Nehru rejected the design on the grounds that, although Gandhi and
Sardar Patel and others had originally expressed their willingness to accept
it, he had now come to the conclusion that the prevailing feeling among
Congress extremists was that the leaders were pandering to the</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> British. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This had reached a point
where it was inadvisable to press the design upon them. Nehru sent the Viceroy
a design prepared by Congress which showed the Dominion flag as closely
resembling the Congress flag, but with the wheel of the Sarnath Asoka replacing
the spinning wheel. And, of course, no Union Jack." <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/in!.html</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">Regarding the protest against the V</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">iceroy’s proposal to include a small Union Jack in the Indian flag; </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">Gandhiji</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">
saw, nothing wrong in that as long as India was a Dominion included in
the British Commonwealth. Such a display would be an act of courtesy,
and a gesture worthy of the best traditions built up in India. But, he
had learnt at the Working Committee meeting that the Union Jack was not
in fact going to be included. The Mahatma asked his audience not to
rejoice over this omission!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Answering a question in a prayer meeting at New Delhi, Mahatma Gandhi had said, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">But
what is wrong with having the Union Jack in a corner of our flag? If
harm has been done to us by the British it has not been done by their
flag and we must also take note of the virtues of the British. They are
voluntarily withdrawing from India, leaving power in our hands... It
pains me that the Congress leaders could not show this generosity... If I
had the power that I once had I would have taken the people to task for
it. After all, why should we give up our humanity</i>”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>.</span></div>
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Flag Committee chose the Asoka’s Dharma Chakra for the reason that
amongst all the chakras that came to their mind the “Sarnath Chakra” was
the most beautiful and artistic. On the flag, it would signify India’s
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">Mahatma Gandhi was not too happy with the replacement of the Charkha in the flag with Buddhist Emperor Asoka's Dharma Chakra (Wheel of Law)</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 150%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"></i>. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">Though
Nehru insisted that the change was not significant, Gandhi had his
reservations, fearing that the association with the lion in the Asokan
emblem would signify violence. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">He admitted in a statement published in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Harijan</i> that, ‘N<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">othing would have lost if our councillors had never thought of interfering with the design of the original flag.</span>’<sup> </sup>In a statement made in Lahore on 6 August 1947, Gandhi said,</span></span></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 150%;">On 15<sup>th</sup> August 1947 the people of </span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Khulna</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> (now in Bangladesh) hoisted the Indian tri-colour flag<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>thinking <b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Khulna</b> will go to India but the Boundary Commission headed by Radcliffe awarded it to East Pakistan <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(T</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">he boundary line, known as <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Radcliffe Line,</b> was published on 17<sup>th</sup> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>August 1947 as a boundary demarcation between India and Pakistan) .</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">The people of Khulna called on Mahatma</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Gandhi who was then in Calcutta and ask him what is to be done to the <u>hoisted tri-colour ?</u> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was Gandhi’s ‘day of silence’, so, he wrote on a piece of paper: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></b></span></span><br />
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Flags and Stampshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06350325346659297692noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295916586089350708.post-35065334245930166162015-06-09T11:30:00.001-07:002016-05-02T21:20:15.890-07:00BANDE MATARAM: The Freedom Cry<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #783f04;"><i>BANDE MATARAM</i></span>: The Freedom Cry</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In 1905, the British Government under Viceroy
Lord Curzon initiated the ‘partition of Bengal’ which <span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">became</span> a major turning point in the Indian
independence movement. During the turbulent days of the anti-partition movement
in Bengal, the slogan <span style="color: #990000;">‘<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bande Mataram</i>’</b> </span>also spelled as <span style="color: #990000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Vande
Mataram’</i></b> </span>became the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘freedom-cry’</b>
of national resurgence. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bande Mataram’s</i>
appeal was instant. The amazing transformation of the slogan ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bande Mataram’</i> into a revolutionary ‘<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">war cry’</b> was the work of the youth in
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">B<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">ande Mataram’</span></i> was composed in 1876 by
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee <span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">(1838-1894).
</span>In 1882 the song was included in his novel <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ananda Math </span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(Abode of Bliss)</span>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In 1906, Bipin Chandra Pal <span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">(1858-1932)</span> and Sri
Aurobindo <span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Ghose (1872-1950)</span>
adopted <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bande Mataram </i>as the name of
their English Weekly that was to serve as the organ of revolutionary nationalism
from Calcutta. In 1908, the ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bande
Mataram’</i> was forced to stop publication under the Newspapers Act of 1908. </span></div>
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to unite the whole of India became paramount and <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">the question of invention of a distinctive pan-Indian National flag began
to be discussed in the press. One of the </span>first serious attempts at
flag-making came from <b>Sister Nivedita</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, an Irish disciple of Swami Vivekananda in 1904. Nivedita’s</span> flag
was adorned by the symbol of the <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Vajra<b>
</b></span></i>placed in between the words ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">B<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">ande</span></i>’
and ‘<i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Mataram</span></i>’ in Bengali
with<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">jyotis<b> </b></span></i>embroidered along the outer periphery.<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></div>
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preserved at Acharya Bhavan Museum, Bose Institute, Kolkata.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There were two other flags emblazoned
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1)
The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Calcutta Flag</b> hoisted by Sir
S.N. Bannerji on the first anniversary of Boycott Day on 7 August 1906, and by
the Congress President <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Dadabhai Naoroji
</span>at the Calcutta session of the Congress in December 1906. The flag was jointly designed by Sukumar Mitra and Sachindra Prasad Basu. The flag was made by Kumudini Basu, sister of Sukumar Mitra.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">2) A</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"> - a variant of the
Calcutta flag popularly known as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Madame
Bhikaji Rustom Cama’s flag; </b>flown </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">on 22 August 1907 at the Second International Socialist
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: medium; line-height: 150%;">The song</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: medium; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">‘Bande
Mataram’</span></i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was
set to music by Rabindranath Tagore who also sang it for the first time at the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All India</span> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">Congress session in Calcutta in
1896.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">Hemendra Mohan Bose on his label,
‘H. Bose’s Record’ released commercially the song ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bande Mataram’</i> in Rabindranath Tagore’s own voice for the first
time in 1907. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">It was </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">Netaji
Subhas Bose</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">, Supreme Commander of the Azad Hind Fouz (INA) who asked Timir Baran
Bhattacharya to set the song into a tune that could be used as a marching song.
The song’s vinyl disc was released in 1938; it was broadcast from Singapore
Radio during World War II in 1943.</span></b></span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">There were numerous other rendering of the song by
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;"> A patriotic Bengali Movie “Bande Matarm” was released
in September 1946 in Calcutta, just a year before our Independence. </span></b></span></span></div>
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in The Hindusthan Standard, Calcutta, dated Friday, 15 August 1947. ("<span style="color: red;"><i>Bande Mataram</i></span>" English translation by <span style="color: red;">Sri Aurobindo</span>).</span><br />
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Hindu song or it was meant only for the Hindus…. It is enthroned in the hearts
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> The song <i><b>"Bande Mataram"</b></i> which has played a historic role in the struggle for Indian freedom was given equal status with <b>"<i>Jana Gana Mana</i>" </b>while adopting the later as Indian National anthem by <b>President Rajendra Prasad</b> in the Constituent Assembly on 24 January 1950.</span></span></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b>Asia-Pacific
Postal Union (APPU) </b>aims to extend, facilitate and improve
postal relations between the member countries and
promote cooperation in the field of postal services. By acting as
a regional centre of excellence APPU is taking Posts into the Future
by facilitating access to regulatory, operational and commercial best
practice.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> APPU
supports the interests of smaller and lower income members through
representation at Universal Postal Union (UPU) meetings</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The history of the APPU</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> dates back to a postal roundtable
held in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Manila in 1961.</b> At that
meeting <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">18 countries</b> met
to draw up the Asian-Oceanic Postal Convention, which came into force on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1st April 1962</b>. Thus the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Asian Pacific Postal Union</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">(AOPU)</b> was born in 1962 and in due
course additional members have made it an inter-governmental body of <b>32
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">APPU</b>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">Philippines commemorated 15 years of AOPU in 1977. The Stamps show Flags of fourteen (14) member countries.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> The stamp has wrongly put the flag of ‘Kingdom of Laos' which was abandoned in 1975, in place of the current national flag. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Colour and denomination missing in the stamp above.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> The flag of the erstwhile Kingdom of Laos used between 1952 and 1975.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The flag adopted by </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b>Lao People's Democratic Republic</b> in 1975</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaFC8c_aBxYzL35rbtPCHnLNepmE8if0XNYt_96UMzTYNwvJmSSxfd_eS1p4pIZIU1-tKvzcuZ6G2UN72G2cqoZw4sZiUlmXuRzQ2Ra0t6_NO9Et8KtduPgURjsdHg9iHhGWTmXg1goUdP/s1600/AOPU+thailand.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaFC8c_aBxYzL35rbtPCHnLNepmE8if0XNYt_96UMzTYNwvJmSSxfd_eS1p4pIZIU1-tKvzcuZ6G2UN72G2cqoZw4sZiUlmXuRzQ2Ra0t6_NO9Et8KtduPgURjsdHg9iHhGWTmXg1goUdP/s320/AOPU+thailand.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: medium;">The stamp from Thailand commemorating 15th anniversary of AOPU shows flags of 11 (eleven) member countries including Lao People's democratic Republic flag (depicted correctly) </span>.</div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI3887_TKwAKVZ-BKbkOoRfhgxZn_mtGLwT_iFcOg3ZaK98TDdYyVkWgiCakKbjF1MWB-GzellCKSGGZQUR2L1kXipeEH0vqh-n-ff7szSBnuU4YYtGL28_BJTvlOughl5zbSEzNwh-B-E/s1600/papua+new+guinea,+1990.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">Postal Aerogramme from Papua New Guinea commemorates 20th Anniversary of the AOPU in 1982. It has 23 flags.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Philippines stamps issued to commemorate the 50th anniversary of APPU in 2012. Flags of all 32 member countries now appear on the stamps. Lao flag appears correctly in the new issue but mistake remains in the 'stamp on stamp'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Thailand FDC issued to commemorate the 50th. anniversary of APPU</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Indian National Flag : the Designers : </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> What Betsy Ross is to America, Pingali Venkayyaa is to India </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There is a wrong perception in India that
Pingali Venkayyaa had designed the Indian National flag<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">.</span>
No, it is not true. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Pingali did not
design the present national flag of India. Albeit,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> most Indians are made to believe the ‘myth’ that
the Indian National Flag - ‘<b><i>The Tiranga</i></b>’ adopted on 22 July 1947 by the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Constituent</span> Assembly was designed
by <b>Pingali Venkayyaa. </b>This is travesty of history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: red;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">historical evidence</span> does not support the theory of just one individual maker of the Indian
National flag. </b>Rather, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the present
flag, like the Freedom Movement, was the work of many hands</b>. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">The Flag we fly today was designed by </span><span class="st"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">Mrs. Suraiya </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">Badr-ud-din Tyabji</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> .</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">India’s Tiranga flag has become a
recognizable symbol the world over and is a source of great pride to Indians. The
booklet ‘<b>Our</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Flag’</b> published by the
Publications Divisions, Govt. of India (January 1950) states; “The <b>evolution
of the Indian National Flag </b>reflects the political developments in the country
during the 20<sup>th</sup> century……”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span> page 1 (<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Origin)</span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: red;"><b>The Flag of
India evolved through a sustained process.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There were many flags already in use in India
and abroad by the Indian exiled revolutionaries, much before Pingaly Venkayyaa
(1876-1963) - a great patriot and an aggressive <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>campaigner of National flag, came up with a
booklet<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘A National Flag for India’ in
1916. <b>Pingali had put forth about 24 designs for the Indian flag in his booklet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: red;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pingali's designs was never able to enthuse Gandhi;
and in his designs he (Gandhi) saw nothing to stir the nation to its depths.</b></span></span></div>
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are the full stories</span></u></b></span><span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">;</span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span class="uficommentbody"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">1) Sister
Nivedita</span></b></span><span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> (1867-1911) - an
Irish disciple of Swami Vivekananda (born Margarett Noble) devised a square flag
emblazoned with a Vajra (Thunderbolt) and the slogan Bande-Mataram in the
centre in 1905, the year Lord Curzon declared ‘partition of Bengal’. </span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In 1906 on the first anniversary of ‘partition of Bengal’
a tricolor flag was raised by Sir Surendranath Bannerjee , The flag was jointly
designed by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sachindra Prasad Basu</b>
and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sukumar Mitra</b> with the support
of volunteers of Anushilan Society (a secret Society). The flag was made by <b>Kumudini Basu</b>, sister of Sukumar Mitra. The flag was later
hoisted by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dadabhai Naoroji</b> in the
Calcutta Congress in December 1906. Reportedly Pingali Venkayyaa was present as
Congress delegate during the event.</span></span></div>
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Germany in 1907 by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Madam Bikaiji Cama</b>.
There are many claimants for the design. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bhupendranath
Dutta</b>, younger brother of Swami Vivekananda, says; It was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hem Chandra Kanungo (Das)</b> - a member of
the Anushilan Samity and ‘in know’ of the Calcutta flag re-produced the Cama’s
flag in Paris. <span style="color: red;"><b>The similarity of the two flags cannot be just a coincidence or
an example of ‘Parallelism in history’. As a member of a secret society (all the members of Anushilan Society had to an oath <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">of secrecy)</span> Memchandra nevar claimed that it was he who made the flag for Madam Cama.</b></span></span></span></div>
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Rule flag, 1917</span></b></span><span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">
designed with the approval of Annie Besant, B.P. Wadia, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and
Mohammad<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ali Jinnah.</span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The above described flags<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>evoked limited response amongst the masses and
were used<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>only in certain events during
our early phases of freedom movements. With the passage of time all these flags
relegated to history.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span class="uficommentbody"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Evolution
of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Swaraj </i>Flag (1921-1931) - First
Pan India National Flag.</span></u></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">M.K.Gandhi’s</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(He was not yet
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mahatma</i></b>
then) article published in Young India in April 1921, I quote;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Mr. P Venkayya of
the National College, Masulipatam</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">, has for some years placed
before the public a suggestive booklet describing the flags of the other
nations and offering designs for an Indian National-Flag. But, whilst I have
always admired the persistent zeal with which Mr. Venkayya has prosecuted the
cause of a National-Flag at every session of the Congress for the past four
years, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">he was never able to enthuse me;
and <span style="color: purple;"><u>in his designs I saw nothing to stir the nation to its depths.</u></span></b><span style="color: purple;"> …
It was <b>Lala Hansraj of Jullundur</b></span> who, in discussing the possibilities of
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the spinning wheel</b>, suggested that
it should find a place on our <i>Swaraj-Flag</i>. I could not help admiring the
originality of the suggestion. At Bezwada <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I<span style="color: purple;">
asked Mr. Venkayya to give me a design containing a <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">spinning wheel on a red (Hindu Colour) and Green (Muslim colour)</span>
background.</span> </b>His enthusiastic spirit enabled me to possess a flag in three
hours. It was just a little late for presentation to the All-India Congress
Committee. I am glad it was so. On maturer consideration I saw that the
background should represent the other religions also. Hindu-Muslim unity is not
an exclusive term; it is an inclusive term, symbolic of the unity of all faiths
domiciled in India. If Hindus and Muslims can tolerate each other, they are
together bound to tolerate all other faiths. The unity is not a menace to the
other faiths represented in India or to the world. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">So I suggest that the background should be white and green and red. </b>The
white portion is intended to represent all other faiths.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Take Mahatma Gandhi’s
writings seriously (and why not), it was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gandhi
who took the pivotal role in formulating the first <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Swaraj</i> flag design,</b> where Pingali Venkayyaa<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was only responsible for the production of
the first<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“flag” . Surely, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pingali was not the sole inventor of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Swaraj</i> flag</b>. However, it does not, in any
way, mean disrespect or dismiss Pingali Venkayyaa. Pingali Venkayya published a booklet titled <b>"A National Flag for India"</b> in 1916. His passionate obsession for a national Flag for India compelled the Congress leaders to address the flag issue with greater depth perhaps for the first time. <b>Pingali Venkayya is and will remain as the
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designs made by Pingali Venkayyaa. Gandhi did not like any of the flag designs produced by Pingali.</span></span><br />
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<span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><b>In all his 24-designs predominantly with Hindu religious traditions, was a small Union Jack at the upper left corner (Canton)</b>, which was undesirable. It is interesting
to find that the <b>Sister Nivedita’s ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vajra</i>
flag’</b> was also found a place in Pingali’s flag list. </span></span></div>
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resentments about the communal interpretations of the colours of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Swaraj</i> flag, notwithstanding Gandhi’s
approval. So, a 'Flag Committee' was formed in 1931 to recommend and advice a new Flag for India. </span></span><span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuJ8_dvBOwqi9lFFc5wXfd1IjV5eB71H1en6e8898mVIjOu7nj5oubukIkBQ-0PtbXAH_jCRRik8nxeAobp5m7NgNbO69Ot4FgFI3uga_QEXrpoawNz66UyBtbRgyrSHzfTDi685aG2cO6/s1600/India+1930s+patriotic+Flag+label+4.5+inch+x+7inch.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="uficommentbody"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">India
Post</span></b></span><span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> notoriously known as ‘dead
brains’ and most ignorant of Indian History issued a postage stamp in 2009
in honour of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pingali Venkayyaa. The brochure released by India Post</b> on the occasion projected him as the designer of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Purna
Swaraj</i> Flag and misquoted Gandhi. What a mockery. </span></span></span></div>
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Flag</span></b></span><span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> (1931-1947) was formulated by
the members of the Congress Working Committee chaired by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sardar
Ballavbhai Patel</b> in accordance with the inputs from Jawaharlal Nehru in
Bombay in <b>August 1931</b>. Earlier, the <b>‘Flag Committee – 1931’</b> headed by Dr
Pattabhi Sitaramiyyaa failed miserably to recommend/find a suitable flag design. </span></span><br />
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Note: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pingali Venkayyaa was not even invited / included in the ‘Flag Committee-1931’ for deliberation, nor he was a member of the Congress Working Committee,</b>
(probably by then; Pingali Venkayyaa had withdrawn himself from the mainstream
politics). <span style="color: purple;"><b>The design of the <i>Purna Swaraj Flag</i> was transferred to <i>Khadi</i> bunting by another Congress volunteer Dr. N. S. Hardikar.</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">Finally in 1947 the
Constituent Assembly set up an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ad hoc</i>
committee under the chairmanship of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dr.
Rajendra Prasad</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to recommend a new
flag of Free India, The Committee unanimously chose <b>Asoka Chakra</b> device in
place of Gandhi’s <i><b>Charkha</b></i>. </span></span><br />
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<span class="uficommentbody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">The model of the new flag of free India was made</span></span></span><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"> by </span><span class="st"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">Mrs. Suraiya </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">Badr-ud-din Tyabji</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>on 17</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: purple;">July
1947.</span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">(Mrs Tyabji’s husband was the
joint secretary in the Constituent Assembly and grandson of the great Tayabji
who was the President of the Congress party in 1887). And the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Purna Swarj</i> Flag which became synonyms
with the National Congress Party of India relegated to become their party flag. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: medium; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">Mahatma Gandhi</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">was not too happy with the replacement of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">charkha</i> in the flag</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">He admitted in a statement published in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Harijan</i> that,<b><i> ‘N<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">othing would have lost, if our councillors had never thought of
interfering with the design of the original flag.</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">’ <sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></sup></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></sup>In a statement made
in Lahore on 6 August 1947,</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gandhi
said</b>,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> "</span><i>I </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"><i>must say that, if the Flag of
the Indian Union will not embody the emblem of the Charkha<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, I will refuse to salute that flag. <span style="color: purple;"><b>You
know the National Flag of India was first thought of by me,</b></span></span> and </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><i>I cannot conceive of India’s National Flag
without the emblem of the Charkha</i>". </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Attempts at debunking the Pingali Venkayyaa myth had not been very
fruitful (excepts in books written by serious scholars, viz Cdr. K. V. Singh,
IN(Retd) of Flag Foundation of India, Prof. Arundhati Virmani, Prof. Sadan Jha,
et al). </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When a belief has been in circulation, people find
it difficult to negate it, even when pointed out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Our History is Rich but our Historians are Poor !</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Bhārat Mātā (<i>Mother India)</i></span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> is the ‘National Personification of India’ as a mother
goddess. She is an amalgam of all the goddesses of Indian culture and more
significantly of Goddess Durga. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
image of <b>‘Bhārat Mātā’</b> formed with the Indian Independence Movement of the late
19th century. A play by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Kiran Chandra
Bannerjee, “<i>Bhārat Mātā”</i></b> was first performed in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1873<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Bankim Chandra Chatterji’s 1882 novel <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ananda Math</b> (Abode of Bliss) introduced
the hymn <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Bande Mataram"</i></b> (Hail to Mother) which since <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1905</b> became the song of the emerging
freedom movement in India. During the turbulent days of anti-partition movement
in Bengal the slogan <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Bande Mataram”</i></b> became the war cry
of national resurgence. The amazing transformation of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘Bande Mataram’</b> from an innocent song into a revolutionary slogan
was the work of the youth in Bengal in 1905-06. In his novel <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ananda Math</b>, Bankim Chandra wrote about
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sanyasis</i></b>
who left their hearths and homes and dedicated their lives to the cause of
their motherland. The characters in his novel personified <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the motherland as the Mother Goddess and worshipped her as such</b>.
They knew no other deity excepting the motherland and no other religion
excepting the religion of patriotism.</span>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b>Abanindranath Tagore</b> portrayed <i><b>Bhārat Mātā</b></i> as a
four-armed Hindu goddess wearing saffron-coloured robes, holding the Vedas,
sheaves of rice, a mala (prayer beads), and a white cloth. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The image of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bharat</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mata</b> was an icon
to create nationalist feeling in Indians during the freedom struggle. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sister</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nivedita</b>, an admirer of the painting, opined that the picture was
refined and imaginative, with <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bharat Mata</b>
standing on green earth and blue sky behind her; feet with four lotuses, four
arms meaning divine power; white halo and sincere eyes; and gifts
Shiksha-Diksha-Anna-Bastra of motherland to her children. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> Today,
<b>Bharat Mata</b> is usually depicted as a lady, clad in a saree holding a
flag either the National flag or the traditional Saffron flag.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The images of Bharat Mata are omnipresent in
our surroundings in myriad of forms of. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can find them in prints, posters,
calendars and plethora of other printed forms as well as in forms of idols. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Privately printed <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">patriotic stationery</b> depicting images of Bharat Mata.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Images
of Bharat Mata were shown holding the Flag of India’s struggle of independence
while national leaders like Mahatma Gandhi were shown providing nation with
homespun fabric – Khadi and national heroes like, Shivaji Maharaj and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose were shown
receiving blessings and or weapons to fight from Bharat Mata. These prints were
a call to support for an independent India</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>M.F. Husain's sketch for The Times of India's special issue for the fiftieth year of Indian Independence
(1947-1997). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Bharat Mata statue at Kanyakumari, Tamil
Nadu, India</span></div>
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Flags and Stampshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06350325346659297692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295916586089350708.post-74672863350239380702014-12-25T03:36:00.000-08:002015-01-06T03:11:06.687-08:00Indian National Flag- Etiquette and Protocols; Some Departures and Wrong Practice.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #0000ab; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
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country. There is universal affection and respect for the National Flag. In
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position of the Flag in last Journeys.</span></b></span> </span></b></span></div>
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lowered into the grave or burnt in the pyre. Vide clause (3.58).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></span></b></span></div>
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on Flag</span></b></u></span></span></b></a></span></b></span></span></span></b> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsaOI2svBUeo36ms8kOlF1TvBxofqMpxV6i-qq3hRYW4jlUghv__Gw82o5MpVgC_yoRjNVFTUrBGJgJdcLylN_db1bhdJ371fbvOaHPKsxMo4gEumkgS9T7WITKWliIL9x6wY3FJNPczwW/s1600/congress+ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsaOI2svBUeo36ms8kOlF1TvBxofqMpxV6i-qq3hRYW4jlUghv__Gw82o5MpVgC_yoRjNVFTUrBGJgJdcLylN_db1bhdJ371fbvOaHPKsxMo4gEumkgS9T7WITKWliIL9x6wY3FJNPczwW/s1600/congress+ad.jpg" height="236" width="320" /></a><span lang="EN-US">The left hand Flag images, </span><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US">purported to be the Flags of the opposition parties</span>
in the advertisement "Twenty Indias or One?", issued by the then
dominant Congress (I) during election campaign in November 1989, are not
real ones, they are all imaginary/fantasy flags. The advertisement when
appeared in some leading newspapers drew a lot of criticisms from the
public in general; claiming it had violated all norms of decency. It
showed 10 opposition leaders and 15 imaginary opposition party flags. It
implied that the opposition leaders would <b>divide the country</b> if voted
to power.<br /> Also, the right hand picture of the map of India in
national colours with the <i>Asoka Chakra</i> at the centre and Mr. Rajib
Gandhi (then president of the Congress) adorning the<i> Chakra</i> was deplored,
as no leader, however great, can be placed on the national flag.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjItzcGHXMqa6AK-Y-C2g81vYE9BXS1HpW8r0MP8drGa54nkL34vIcW52liWEYLMyKYa-PvYLPmBqA6z9uA2mr1j8RgaLZpZYvHFmqb85PUbTGrHnx5WaVkEPcvd3FjGjDL5Tvu5U2sa0h8/s1600/blame+the+flowers+reports.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Clause
3.28 <span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">says </span><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">“Lettering of any kind shall not be
put upon the Flag”.</span></span></b></a></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><u><b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-themecolor: text2;"></span></b></u><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;"></span></b></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Rule 3.14 stipulates,
<span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">A damaged or disheveled Flag
shall not be displayed</span></span></b></span></b></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">Positioning
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">According
to the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>clause 3.10 of the Flag Code: <span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">"When the National Flag is to
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Flower petals inside the Flag</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Clause
3.30; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">The Flag shall</span></span></b><b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text2;"> not be used as a receptacle for receiving, delivering,
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
earlier Post titled “National Flag - Etiquette and Protocols; Wrong depictions
of Indian Tricolour”, Friday, July 16, 2010 is also relevant.</span></span></b></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gems of Indian Flag Stamp Essays</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-themecolor: text1;">L.N. Williams</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"> in his <b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Fundamentals
of Philately”,</i></b> published by the American Philatelic Society,
Pennsylvania, 1990, defines; <b>“Essays”</b> are (printed) designs proposed but
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"> The proposed but never used postage
stamps </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-themecolor: text1;">of <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Azad
Hind Government <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(<i>Nationales Indien</i>). Indian National Army (INA) was so sure of its triumph that it printed postage stamps for Azad Hind.
</span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The stamps printed in <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1943</span> at <i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Reichsdruckerei</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">,</i> Berlin, Germany</b> were designed by the team consisting of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Werner
and Maria von Axter-Heudtlass</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.</i>
The stamps were meant for use in Free India (Azad Hind) after the liberation of India. Three
types or colour trials (?) of semi-postal stamps in the denominations of ‘1R +
2R’ are known to exist. According to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">S. A.
Ayer</b>, former minister of publicity of the Provisional Government of Azad
Hind, ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Under Netaji’s specific
instructions a number of designs for stamps to be issued in the name of Azad
Hind were prepared. Many of the designs were personally approved by Netaji.’</i>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1988, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Biren Roy,</b> Member of the Parliament (MP) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>said, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘I
have spoken to Colonel of the INA Prem Saigal who was Netaji’s private aide-de-camp
in the Far East. He stated that the stamps were printed under the orders of
Netaji Bose in Germany</i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">.’ Source; “Azad Hind” and “Chalo
Delhi” Stamps by Herbert A. Friedman, Published by Jal Cooper,1972.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">India
1947 Flag Stamp Essay</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (imperforate block of four), first
appeared in the 59<sup>th</sup> Specialised Public Auction Sale ; 8<sup>th</sup>
& 9<sup>th</sup> November 1997, by Sukhani Europhil Ltd, Calcutta. (The
item was later withdrawn from the auction sale). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On 28 January 2014, an auction was
held in London by Spink, the first item on the auction list was the 1947
Independence 1<sup>1</sup>/<sub>2</sub> a. Flag Stamp Essay- an imperforate
pair. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Source; Stamps Today,
January-February 2014, New Delhi. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Erstwhile Princely State of Hyderabad </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b><span class="normaltext"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Hyderabad: 1947 Essays</span></b></span><span class="normaltext"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">
prepared in anticipation of the Commemoration of Hyderabad’s Independence;
however these stamps were never issued as Hyderabad became part of India. The
complete set of four stamps include 4 pies green & yellow depicting
transport symbols, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the 8 pies purple
& yellow depicting the proposed flag of the Independent State of Hyderabad,
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the 1 anna yellow & green depicting
the map of Hyderabad</b> and the 2 annas yellow-orange depicting head gear ”<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dastor</i>”. An extremely rare and important
complete set of which less than 10 sets are in private hands today. These four
stamps are a testimony to the fact that Hyderabad may have become an
independent country and not belonged to India after 1947. </span></span><span class="normaltext"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Source:
Todywalla Auctions; Electronic Stamp Auction – 1, conducted by Art &
Antique Décor, Mumbai.</span></span><br />
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<span class="normaltext"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">India Postage Stamp
Centenary 1854-1954</span></b></span><span class="normaltext"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Essays on watermarked
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The exhibition titled <b><i>"FLAGS
- Short hand of history"</i></b> was a grand success. There were many
visitors thronged the gallery almost all day long. On popular demand the
closing date of the exhibition was extended up to 24th August. Local news
papers and TV channels also covered the events. Many visitors mentioned that
this type of exhibition should be taken to all other cities of India so that
general people may get the opportunity to know the history of the National Flag
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Chief Guest Mr Jayanta Sengupta</b>, Curator, Victoria Memorial Hall,
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Mrs Rajashree Behara, Regional Director, </span></b><b><span style="color: #888888; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rabindranath Tagore
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On the eve of India’s 68<sup>th</sup> Independence Day on 14<sup>th</sup>
August 2014, the Rabindranath Tagore Centre-Kolkata, the cultural flagship of
the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Ministry of External Affairs,
Government of India will host a unique exhibition on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Indian National Flag</b> commemorating the 68<sup>th</sup> anniversary
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> The exhibition will showcase a surprising rich collections
of the Indian National Flag symbols on visual objects - sourced from – a
plethora of materials, namely, postage stamps, news-paper clippings, books and
various other myriad articles and even unconventional sources like match box
labels, propaganda leaflets, 78RPM gramophone records, et al, have been pieced
together to reconstruct the history of ‘<b>Flags of India’</b> right from the
Vedic periods. Perhaps,<u> the collections itself is only one in kind in our
country</u> at the moment. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The
exhibition explores and celebrates the rich and colourful history of the Indian
National Flag and the process by which the National Flag in its present form
was born on 22<sup>nd</sup> July 1947, </b>its uses and abuses, etiquette and
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are</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> ‘<b>short hand of history’</b>.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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struggle, who fell for the cause of the flag during various phases of our
freedom movements. Going through the exhibition one will find, many, unknown,
or, ‘little known’ or forgotten ‘flag events’ - which were once
pivotal in drawing volunteers - young and old, men and women - to free
our country from the foreign rulers – The Dutch, British, French and the
Portuguese. There will be dedicated sections on each of them and the impacts
they had on our societies since the ‘Age of discovery’.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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Flags and Stampshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06350325346659297692noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295916586089350708.post-20664388107517832282014-03-26T06:08:00.000-07:002016-05-02T21:28:12.818-07:00Monumental Flagpoles of the World<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">New Delhi's highest <b>Monumental Flagpole</b> hoisted by the Flag Foundation of
India at </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Connaught Place.</b> </span></div>
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<b> The largest National Flag in the country at the Central Park in Connaught Place in New Delhi.</b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> President of the Flag Foundation of India, hoisted the <b>largest
flag in the country </b>and <b>highest flagpole in New Delhi</b>, measuring 207 ft.
in height, at <b>Central Park in Connaught Place </b>on 7 March 2014. <b>The monumental flag
measures 60 ft. in width and 90 ft. in length and weighs 35 kg.</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><br />
There are 12 such flag poles in the country but
this national flag is the largest , said <b>Cdr. K.V. Singh</b> of the Flag
Foundation of India. The Flag Foundation of India and the New Delhi
Municipal Council (NDMC) worked together on the project. The flag pole has been designed keeping in mind the geometry of
Connaught Place, Singh said. “We are trying to create a monument for the
national flag in the capital of the country,” he added.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Special Cover released on<b> Biggest Indian Flag on tallest flag-pole in Rajasthan</b> at Central Park, Jaipur at Rajpex 2015 on<b> 26th January 2015.</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Cancellation in form of Digital Franking using Remotely Managed Franking System (RMFS). The Meter Frank depicts National Flag and Slogan <b>'Highest National Flag in Rajasthan'</b> and <b>'Greetings on Republic Day'. </b>The meter frank is serially numbered from 1 to 1000.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> The <b>Indian National Flag </b>is hoisted at a height of 206 feet throughout the year at Natural Heritage, Central Park, Jaipur. The flag is 48 feet wide and 72 feet in length weighing about 25 Kgs. The monumental flag was hoisted for the first time by the then Chief Minister of Rajasthan Mr. Ashok Gehlot in October 2011. Hoisting the flag, the chief minister said that national flag is a symbol of dignity and pride. He also asked the citizens to guard the dignity of national flag even at the cost of their lives. He also thanked <b>Flag Foundation of India</b> to get right for common man to hoist the flag. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span> <span style="font-size: small;">(Updated).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In<b> 1687, Elihu Yale</b> the second Governor of Madras, hoisted the <b>Union
Jack</b> for the first time on the flag-mast at <b>Fort St. George</b>, Madras (present day Chennai),
replacing that of the East India Company’s flag<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> (the original wooden-mast was replaced by a
steel-mast of equal height in 1994)</span>.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> On <b>August 15, 1947</b>, it
was on this flag-mast that the <b>Indian Tricolour</b> was hoisted for the
first time and since then it has become the government venue of the Independence Day Flag
hoisting ceremony of Tamil Nadu state.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Elihu Yale</b> (1649 – 1721)- Governor of the East India Company<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company" title="East India Company"></a> settlement in Madras<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chennai" title="Chennai"></a> and a benefactor of the Collegiate School of Connecticut<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collegiate_School_of_Connecticut" title="Collegiate School of Connecticut"></a>, USA, which in 1718 was renamed <b>Yale College</b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_College" title="Yale College"></a> in his honor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><b><u>Guinness Book of World Records</u></b></span></span></div>
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The <b>Dushanbe Flagpole</b> is located in front of the Palace of nations in
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><b>The gigantic Flag at the National Flag Square</b> off Neftchiler Avenue
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measuring 70 by 35 metres (230 by 115 feet) flies on a pole <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">162 m (531 ft)</b> high.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The latest technology was applied in
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Both flagpoles were built by the same
American designer, David Chambers</b>, general director of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">UAE</b> based company <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Trident
Support Corporation</b>.<br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><u><sup> </sup><span style="font-size: large;">Other Monumental Flagpoles of the World</span></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the 1980s, the South Korean government built a 98.4 m (323 ft)
tall <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>flagpole with a 130-kilogram
(287 lb) flag of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in Daeseong-dong </span><br />
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The <b>North Korean</b> government responded by building a taller one, the
Panmunjeom flagpole, at <b>160 m (525 ft)</b> with a 270 kg
(595 lb) flag of North Korea in Kijŏng-dong, 1.2 km across the
demarcation line from South Korea, in what some have called the <b><span style="color: #660000;">"Flagpole
War"</span>. </b> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The monumental flagpole record has grown in all most all parts of the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The <b>Ashgabat Flagpole</b> is the fourth tallest free-standing flagpole in the
world, at 133 metres (436 feet) tall. It is located in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan,
it was erected in 2008.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Union Arab Emirate Flagpole.</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> The flagpole in the UAE stands in 123 meters tall and 403.5
feet. The flagpole is located in the city of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Abu Dhabi</b>, and can be seen directly from the Arab gulf offshore as
far as 60km with height about 123 meters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The tallest flagpole in </span></span>Jordon</b>,</span><span class="ircsu">
erected on the grounds of <b>Raghadan Palace, the gigantic flag pole is </b></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>as high as 126.8 meters (416 feet)</b>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>King Abdullah II officially hoisted the
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>A city named after a gigantic tall flagpole</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Flagstaff</b>, Arizona, USA. The city
is named after a<b> </b>tall<b> Ponderosa Pine</b> <b>flagpole</b>
made by a scouting party from Boston (known as the "Second Boston
Party") to celebrate the United States Centennial on <b>July 4, 1876.</b></span><br />
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