Tiranga Juice

India's Independence Day ~ स्वतंत्रता दिवस is celebrated on 15th August, in honour of India's Independence from British Raj and its birth as a sovereign nation. British ruled India from 1858 - 1947. The struggle for Indian independence continued for years basically from the time the East India Company set up its rule. India saw the emergence of some freedom fighters and satyagrahis who with their ideologies and principles sought to achieve independence. Many people participated in the Indian freedom struggle under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi. Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel, Subhash Chandra Bose, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bhagat Singh, Khudiram Bose, Ramprasad Bismil, Madame Cama, Aurobindo Ghosh, Bagha Jatin, Suhdev, Rajguru are few of the freedom fighters, who sacrificed their lives for us to enjoy the freedom.
After so many years of British rule, India finally won backs its freedom on 15th August, 1947. All the patriotic hearts rejoiced at seeing India becoming a sovereign nation and the triumph of hundreds and thousands of martyred souls. It was a birth of a new nation and a new beginning.
People hoist the national flag through out the country and put them up on the rooftops and the buildings. People only go to offices to attend the flag hoisting ceremony. The Prime Minister addresses the Nation after the flag hoisting.
In India, the term "tricolour" ~ ''Tiranga'' refers to the Indian national flag. Few of us are aware about the fact that Pingali Venkayya designed our Tiranga.The flag is a horizontal tricolour of "deep Saffron" at the top, White in the middle, and Green at the bottom. In the centre, there is a Navy Blue wheel with twenty-four spokes, known as the Ashok Chakra.

The flag's Saffron color symbolizes Courage and Sacrifice, White stands for Peace and Truth, and Green is for Faith and Chivalry, and Blue represents the color of the sky and the ocean. The central motif is a Chakra, or Buddhist spinning wheel. The 24 spokes of the wheel correspond with the 24 hours of the day, implying that there is life in movement and death in stagnation.

''Saare jahan se accha Hindustan Hamara'' It makes more sense now. Sixty years after independence, India is beginning to deliver on its promise. Over the past few years the world's biggest and rowdiest democracy has matched its political freedoms with economic ones, unleashing a torrent of growth and wealth creation that is transforming the lives of millions. India's economic clout is beginning to make itself felt on the international stage and with recent achievement of Abhinav Bindra made India proud by claiming Gold Medal in Beijing Olympics in the Men's 10m Air Rifle.

Source: Wikipedia and TIMES

Wishing All Happy Independence Day

I received today from my school friend Sejal Zaveri a beautiful painting of Mahatma Gandhi our Bapu - Father of the Nation. This marvellous Art work is done by using Charcoal and Pencil. I received her mail, when I was drafting this post, so I thought let me use her Art work, which is apt for the post and I seeked her permission to showcase her talent on my blog.

Away from homeland, I truly miss India and I thought best way to celebrate our Independence is by making this Tiranga Juice. Here's my entry for Creative Pooja's Independence Day Event and for EC's WYF'S Colour in Food as colours of India are represented in the Juice

Ingredients:
5 Apples
2 Bananas
8 Oranges
8 Kiwis
2 Tablespoons of Sugar

Method:
1. Wash and clean all the fruits, and then peel off the skin from all the fruits.
2. Extract Orange juice by using citrus juicer extractor and add 1 Tablespoon of Sugar
3. Blend the apples and banana together and keep it aside.
4. In the same Juicer blender, blend the kiwis and add 1 Tablespoon of sugar and keep it aside.
5. For making Tricolour of Indian flag, take a serving glass, with spoon add kiwi juice, then with help of a spoon make layer of Apple and Banana juice and in the end with spoon top it with Orange Juice.