- Friday, May 03, 2024
By: Shubham Ghosh
THE governor of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, Jagdeep Dhankar, will dedicate an enormous Indian national flag measuring 7,500 square feet on the occasion of the country’s 75th Independence Day on Sunday (15).
The event will take place at the historical Victoria Memorial Hall in Kolkata, the capital of the state which the British colonial masters had made the capital of British India till 1911. The occasion will be co-hosted by Indiatourism Kolkata and the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute (HMI), Darjeeling, Bengal. The museum will be draped in the massive Tricolour.
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The event will also see planting of 750 saplings on the premises of the memorial which is named after Queen Victoria, under whom the British Empire had witnessed great expansion world over.
The flag, which will be dedicated to the nation by Dhankar, started its journey in April when it was unfurled by officials of the HMI at Mt Rhenock in the Himalayan state of Sikkim at an altitude of 5,030 metres.
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It then travelled to Darjeeling where it was unfurled once again at the HMI on the International Day of Yoga in June. Thereafter, it headed for Kolkata.
Jayanta Sengupta, curator and secretary of Victoria Memorial Hall told News18, “The Victoria Memorial Hall is privileged to collaborate with Indiatourism Kolkata and HMI, Darjeeling, in having this unique celebration of India@75, with the icon of the city and one of the grandest buildings of imperial India being draped in a 7500 sq ft national flag, in the honourable governor’s presence. The irony of history cannot be missed by anybody in this symbolic and spectacular event.”
