Bharat 01 - The Flag of India (Bhārat, भारत)

This is the Flag of India. The colours are saffron, white and green.

The flag is a horizontal tricolour of "deep saffron" at the top, white in the middle, and green at the bottom. In the centre, there is a navy blue wheel with twenty-four spokes, known as the Ashoka's Dharma Chakra (after Ashoka, the Great), taken from the Lion Capital of Asoka erected atop Ashoka pillar at Sarnath.

The diameter of this Chakra is three-fourths of the height of the white strip. Each spoke depicts one hour of the day, portraying the prevalence of righteousness all 24 hours of it.

The ratio of the width of the flag to its length is 2:3

Description if the Flag's symbolism by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, who later became India's first Vice President:

Bhagwa or the saffron colour denotes renunciation or
disinterestedness. Our leaders must be indifferent to
material gains and dedicate themselves to their work. The
white in the centre is light, the path of truth to guide our
conduct. The green shows our relation to (the) soil, our
relation to the plant life here, on which all other life
depends. The "Ashoka Chakra" in the centre of the white is
the wheel of the law of dharma. Truth or satya, dharma or
virtue ought to be the controlling principle of those who
work under this flag. Again, the wheel denotes motion. There
is death in stagnation. There is life in movement. India
should no more resist change, it must move and go forward.
The wheel represents the dynamism of a peaceful change.

A widely held unofficial interpretation is that the saffron stands for purity and spirituality, white for peace and truth, green for fertility and prosperity and the wheel for justice

The Flag is in use since 15 August 1947. The Indian National Flag was designed by Pingali Venkayya. The official flag specifications require that the flag be made only of "khadi," a special type of hand-spun yarn.

In India, the term "tricolour" [Tirangā – तिरंगा (in Hindi)] almost always refers to the Indian national flag.