This day in 1947, the Tricolour was adopted as India's National Flag. But do you know that Mahatma Gandhi wanted a Union Jack in one corner of the new flag? Something like this flag design seen here which was proposed by our first Governor-General Lord Louis Mountbatten. (1/n) 
Gandhiji, unlike Subhas Chandra Bose, was not an enemy of the Empire. He favoured Dominion Status under the British monarch (which we got in 1947), not Purna Swaraj, or complete freedom of India as Netaji strove for. (2/n)
Subhas Bose's insistence on Purna Swaraj got him in trouble with the Gandhi camp. At that, he refused to accept the cult of ahimsa -- which has since then been accepted by the people and Govt of India. Bose was heretic when viewed from that context. He was misfit. (3/n)
