The Ashok Chakra, with its 24 spokes, replaced the spinning wheel on the Indian flag. This emblem is meant to symbolise the idea that life is sustained through movement and progress, while ...

The spinning wheel, an emblem of self-reliance and Gandhian principles, adorned the flag. The flag's significance deepened as it became the rallying point for India's freedom movement. It was ...

The Ashok Chakra, which is represented in navy blue on a white backdrop on the Indian National Flag, is actually a representation of the Dharma chakra -- a wheel with 24 spokes.

While the ratio of width of the flag to its length is two to three, the wheel is at the centre and the diameter of the chakra approximates to the width of the white band. However, the Indian flag ...

As India will ... adopting a tricolor flag as our national flag. This flag, the forbear of the present one, was saffron, white and green with Mahatma Gandhi's spinning wheel at the center.