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Happy Independence Day for India

Sankar Anand [PersonRank 10]

Tuesday, August 15, 2006
17 years ago4,827 views

Today Indians Celebrate thier 60th Independence Day.
http://www.dropfiles.net/filez/3343/india06.gif
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Mayank [PersonRank 3]

17 years ago #

Yay! Happy Independence day to you too sankar and all the fellow Indians.

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

http://www.google.co.in/

origin logo link:
http://www.google.co.in/logos/india06.gif

Happy Independence day India! :)

Sankar Anand [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

hey tell me how my design is check it out below

http://www.dropfiles.net/filez/3343/flag%20copy.jpg

/pd [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Happy Indepedence Day to the Desi folks!!

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

It's National Day in Korea too :
http://www.zorgloob.com/2006/08/logos-google-core-du-sud-et-inde.asp

/pd [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

oh ok... happy national day to the Koreaians too!!!

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Do you like the korean logo? It is really awesome, maybe because Dennis Hwang is Korean? :-)
http://www.google.co.kr/logos/korea06.gif

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

nice logo.. neat design.. :)

Haochi [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Happy Indepedence Day of India!
Do you guys noticed that the "Indepedence Day of India" logo is without the trademark, and the "Liberation Day of Korea" has it?

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

youre right..
strange thing..

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Haochi > all the countries have different names for their "national holiday". In USA it "Independence Day", in France it's just "FĂȘte Nationale" ("Bastille Day" in English).

But for the trademark, I have noticied that and I think it's just a default, because the "TM" is on the usual google logo.

Sankar Anand [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Guys can anyone confirm me whether india celebrates 59th independence or 60th ?

President page reports 60th
NDTV reports 60th

Doordarshan reports 59th

Sunil Nair [PersonRank 9]

17 years ago #

Sankar, 59 is correct. Year of Independence was 1947. In other words, 59 completed years and entering the 60th year.

/pd [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

On Aug 15th 1947 – Viscount Lord Louis Mountbatten -declared India to be independant. So if my count is correct, this is the 59th yr of Independence!!

Sankar Anand [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

but i say its 60th...................
This is not birthday calculation type We must include 47
we got in august 1947 which is our first independence day
48 – 2nd independence
49 – 3rd
50 – 4
51 – 5
52 – 6
53 – 7
54 – 8
55 – 9
56 – 10
57 11
58 12
59 13
60 14
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93 47
94 48
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00 54
01 55
02 56
03 57
04 58
05 59
06 60 and thats it....................

Sources that Supports my calucaltion
http://presidentofindia.nic.in/scripts/independenceday.jsp
www.mibazaar.com/2006/08/indias-60th-independence-day.html
www.studentorg.umd.edu/desi/independence
es.fc.yahoo.com/ph/india/index.html
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1888168.cms
www. indianembassy.fi/index.php?id=203

Sources that support /PD
http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14270856
http://www.aajtak.com/
and many other indians i could say most of them even Wikepedia supports /PD....

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

<< Sankar, 59 is correct. Year of Independence was 1947. In other words, 59 completed years and entering the 60th year. >>

That's correct – both 59 and 60 are correct depending on their context.

On August 15th 1948, they probably would have celebrated 1 year of independence. Therefore, this year they should be celebrating 59 years of independence.

However, on the August 15th 1948 they could have also been celebrating their 2nd Independence Day, meaning this year would be their 60th Independence Day (rather than 60 years of independence, which would be wrong).

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