History headline: United colours of a flag | The Indian Express

History headline: United colours of a flag | The Indian Express

Written by Muzamil Jaleel |Updated: September 1, 2019 9:41:52 am

History headline: United colours of a flag

The pro-India political camp in Kashmir point to the irony in this: 80 years ago, the flag’s creators had conceived it as a symbol of unity — across classes, and religions.

J&K flag over Secretariat building, Srinagar. Sheikh Abdullah’s condition while backing India was a J&K flag, that would in “no way rival” Tricolour. (Express photo by Shuaib Masoodi)

THE taking down of the Jammu and Kashmir flag from Srinagar’s Secretariat building on August 25 formally completed the end of the state’s special status, which entitled it to, among other things, a separate flag and a Constitution of its own.