Tricolour

The Dutch and the Belgian tricolour were streaming side by side amiably in the village on the border.

The Indian flag is called the tricolour because it has stripes of three colours – saffron, white and green.

The bugler played taps as the tricolour was lowered at sunset.

Tricolours are seen in the national flags of over twenty countries, including Belgium, France, India, Italy, Russia, The Netherlands and Ireland.

Journalists too were unwelcome and photographers had to conceal cameras. “He’s with the Guardian,” a man in his 60s, holding a tricolour, shouted.

[…] to the Indian red. The black, to complete the racial tricolor, was yet to come. The white population settled, as the more advanced Indian groups had, in areas having the most comfortable temperatures.

David Hammons would go one^([sic]) to produce his own national colors, to subvert the boundaries of nation with his Pan-African Flag (1990), a version of the American tricolor reimagined in the black internationalist tones of red, green, and black.

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