Interesting Facts About India's Independence Day

Every year the whole nation of India fathoms the patriotic feeling with the tricolor of saffron, white and dark green on 15 August, which is celebrated as the Independence Day in India.

Here are some interesting facts about India’s Independence day:

• India had no national anthem when it became an independent country on 15th August, 1947. It was adopted as India’s national anthem later in the 1950s. The Bengali version of Jana Gana Mana was written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1911 which was first sung during the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress.

• Although India became independent on July 18, 1947, Lord Mountbatten declared 15th August as the date of Independence because this date observed the second anniversary of the surrendering of Japan to the Allied Forces during World War II.