Flag of India the Ashoka Chakra representing the eternal wheel of law. The philosopher Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, who later became India's first Vice President and second President, clarified the adopted flag and described its significance as follows: A number of flags with varying designs were used in the period preceding the Indian Independence Movement by the rulers of different princely states; the idea of a single Indian flag was first raised by the British rulers of India after the rebellion of 1857, which resulted in the establishment of direct imperial rule. The first flag, whose design was based on western heraldic standards, were similar
Flag of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations the flag is detailed in the ASEAN Charter. Blue represents peace and stability, red represents courage and dynamism, white represents purity, and yellow represents prosperity. The stalks symbolise ASEAN's ten members. The colours of the flag – blue, red, white, and yellow – represent the main colours of the national flags of all ten ASEAN member states. ASEAN's previous flag was similar to the current one - it had five paddy stalks representing the five founding members and the word ASEAN written under the stalks. The background was white instead of blue, the border of the circle along with the