Independent India’s first stamp makes it to Google’s I-Day doodle

New Delhi: Celebrating India's 68^th Independence Day, Google today posted a doodle on its homepage featuring independent India's first stamp.[caption id="attachment_1665557" align="alignleft" width="380"] The featured stamp was first issued on November 21, 1947[/caption]The blue colour stamp with the Indian tricolour is the doodle that comes up when you open Google's India homepage. The stamp, which was issued on November 21, 1947, depicts the Indian flag with the slogan 'Jai Hind' on the top right hand corner. Priced at three and one-half annas, the stamp was meant for foreign correspondence.In the doodle, the ‘G’ in Google’s logo is saffron colour, the colour of the top stripe in the Indian flag. The next two letters are covered by the stamp and the last three letters are in the green shade of the Indian flag."Doodles are the fun, surprising, and sometimes, spontaneous changes are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists, pioneers, and scientists," the global internet giant said.PTI