India celebrated its 68th Independence Day on Friday and if you went to the Google homepage for your country, you would have seen that there was a very special doodle marking the occasion. It carried a picture of the first ever postal stamp issued to revel in the day we won our freedom from the British colonial rule.
The Google doodle was a simple one showing India’s first postage stamp dated 15 August, 1947 and also displaying the Indian national flag proudly waving about in the breeze. It even featured the words ‘Jai hind’ scribbled across the top right hand side and appeared to have cost three and a half annas, the currency which was being used in 1947.
It was not the first time Google hoisted up a doodle to commemorate the nation’s Independence Day. The company does this almost every year and sometimes also splashes a celebratory one across its homepage on 26 January, the day the Constitution of India came into force.
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The last occasion on which the tech giant rolled out an India-specific doodle was on May 16, 2014. Back then, it was more than a month after we went to the polls for the Lok Sabha elections and the vote counting day had dawned. It was obviously an important event considering that we’re the biggest democracy in the world.
The second image we’ve posted shows what the Google doodles for India’s Independence Day in 2013 and 2012 looked like. Earlier this year, the company even sketched out a special image in remembrance of Sarojini Naidu’s 135th birthday.