Our flag-o-logy

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It is really astonishing that our state is still bereft of a genuine flag.Though we have a few to show but none of them is able to carry a big stick.Since last 60 years we could not come up with a colourful piece of cloth that can represent us?--boo! I saw a news channel showing some young guys carrying green colored stoles and scarfs hanging on long wooden sticks; very funny and unusual.Even some protesting women were also quelling the shortage by waving their scarfs.

There wasn't any dearth of flags but the weird part was so many flags with so many colours and so many colors with so many shades.I could see sea green,chrome green,sage green and even bottle green was there.Though protests were kashmiri but some flags were pakistani.Majority of protesters were carrying pakistani flags(green/white) and chanting "We want freedom" slogans.I could not stop laughing when i saw a person in middle of a mammoth gathering waving a yellow flag.I hope he was not suffering from dyschromatopsia.I am sure he was protesting for some other reason, "aazadi" was not his case.

Now jokes apart,if we dig deep into this topic i think it is an important issue.However we were endorsing unity but our flags were doing the wrong publicity.I mean if we are united, if our purpose is the same even we are protesting for the same cause then why these different designs.Believe me i was chagrined when someone asked me the colour of our flag ,because there were so many to choose from.We have got a red and white flag inspired by "Red & White" cheap cigarettes.The inventor must have been a cheap smoker,price 5 Euros per pack is what we have "Vijay" or a cigarette brand like "pannama" priced for Rs 2.50 in india.


Hah! that was an advertisement break.

Okay,now the other one looks bit traditional sort of with a blend of green, orange and white.Though the white strips cutting the green colour seems to have been copied from an australian flag but nevertheless this beautiful flag looks cool and i think suits us as well.It is better and more explanatory due to its vibrant colours.Carrying a flag with only green colour in it is sometimes confusing because that is an islamic flag.So that should be only used for religious purpose.

AJ&K is already using the one with three colours in it.Symbolically the flag represents many aspects of Azad Jammu and Kashmir:
Three Fourths green background representing the seventy five percent Muslim population of the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
One Fourth Orange (Gold) color represents the twenty five percent minorities of the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Green stripes represent the Valley of the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
The White stripes represent the snow-covered mountains of the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Crescent is the usual semblance of the State of Jammu and Kashmir.



So what are we waiting for?