A passage through time

Flag can mean many things. But the top meaning for the noun flag is
flag
–noun

1.	a piece of cloth, varying in size, shape, color, and design, usually attached at one edge to a staff or cord, and used as the symbol of a nation, state, or organization, as a means of signaling, etc.; ensign; standard; banner; pennant.

Flags are symbol of nation, as we know mostly. Some organizations use that, like Sports bodies, Military organizations etc.
In other countries, some states do use it, but not very common in India.

Karnataka has a flag. I doubt if it is an "official" flag, but more or less every one directly or idirectly endorses that by using it for various occassions.

The question is should a state have a flag of its own. I donot have a direct answer to that. Whenever I think of it, I get both sides of ideas, that it would be a good identity, but would that cause avoidable tensions, in situation where we are already poliarized on a variety of issues.

While going to school in the morning with me, Ananya asked this question.
She looked at a Karnataka flag(the normal red an yellow one) and said, "They removed white from the flag". The only flag which she knows till now is our national flag, and she learnt this independence day that it has three colours.
For a moment, I didnt had words to explain to her. I was thinking myself.
It triggered a metaphorical thinking in my mind, are we taking something out of the national symbols by creating others for the state?
What are we taking away? "White"?
Is it "Peace" which we are taking away?

I have no answer...