National Anthem

The song Jana-gana-mana, composed originally in Bengali by Rabindranath Tagore, was adopted in its Hindi version by the Constituent Assembly as the National anthem of India on 24 January 1950. The first stanza contains the full version of the National Anthem :
ACTUAL ONE :
Jana-gana-mana-adhinayaka, jaya he Bharata-bhagya-vidhata.
Punjab-Sindh-Gujarat-MarathaDravida-Utkala-BangaVindhya-Himachala-Yamuna-GangaUchchala-Jaladhi-taranga.
Tava shubha name jage,Tava shubha asisa mage,Gahe tava jaya gatha,Jana-gana-mangala-dayaka jaya heBharata-bhagya-vidhata.
Jaya he, jaya he, jaya he, Jaya jaya jaya, jaya he!
Playing time of the full version of the national anthem is approximately 52 seconds.
TRANSLATION
"Thou art the ruler of the minds of all people,dispenser of India's destiny.
The name rouses the hearts of Punjab, Sind, Gujarat and Maratha, of the Dravid and Orissa and Bengal;
It echoes in the hills of the Vindhyas and Himalayas, mingles in the music of the Yamuna and Ganga and is chanted by the waves of the Indian Sea.
They pray for thy blessings and sing thy praise. The salvation of all people is in thy hand, thou dispenser of India's destiny.Victory, victory, victory to thee.

Lotus scientifically known as Nelumbo Nucifera is the National Flower of India.The Lotus symbolises divinity, fertility, wealth, knowledge and not to forget enlightenment.It is also a symbol of triumph.Untouched by the impurity, lotus symbolises the purity of heart and mind.It was this depth of thought that made the founding fathers of modern India enshrine the lotus in the Constitution as the National Flower.

The Peacock, Pavo cristatus (Linnaeus), the national bird of India. It is symbolic of qualities like beauty, grace, pride and mysticism.The peacock is widely found in the Indian sub-continent from the south and east of the Indus river, Jammu and Kashmir, east Assam, south Mizoram and the whole of the Indian peninsula. Found wild in India they live in jungle lands near water. Hunting of peacocks is banned in India.

It is fully protected under the Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.

The Tiger -

Lord of the Indian Jungles, is the National animal of India. The tiger is the symbol of India's wealth of wildlife. The magnificent tiger, Panthera tigris (Linnaeus), is a striped animal. The combination of grace, strength, agility and enormous power has earned the tiger its pride of place as the national animal of India. Out of eight races of the species known, the Indian race, the Royal Bengal Tiger, is found throughout the . Tigers are now getting extinct. The Government of India, under its Project Tiger programme, started a massive effort to preserve the tiger population in 1973. Today, the tiger advances as a symbol of India's conservation of itself its wildlife heritage.

The National flag is a horizontal tricolor of deep saffron (kesari) at the top, white in the middle and dark green at the bottom in equal proportion.

The ratio of width of the flag to its length is two to three.

In the centre of the white band is a navy blue wheel which represents the Ashoka chakra.

Its diameter approximates to the width of the white band and it has 24 spokes.

Colors Of The Flag:

In the national flag of India the top band is of Saffron colour, indicating the strength and courage of the country.

The middle band, indicates peace and truth with Dharma Chakra.

The last band is green in colour shows the fertility , growth and auspiciousness of the land.

The Chakra:
The spoked Ashoka Chakra in the center of the flag adds historical "depth" to the National flag. This Dharma Chakra depicted the "wheel of the law" in the Sarnath Lion Capital made by the 3rd-century BC Mauryan Emperor Ashoka.

The chakra intends to show that there is life in movement and death in stagnation.