Pingali Venkayya

Pingali Venkayya (August 2, 1876 - July 4, 1963) was the designer of the Indian national flag. He was born in Bhatlapenumarru, near Masulipatnam or the present day Machilipatnam of Andhra Pradesh, India. After high school at Masulipatnam, he went to Colombo to complete his Senior Cambridge. On returning to India, he worked as a railway guard, then as a government employee at Bellary, and later moved to Lahore to join the Anglo-Vedic college to study Urdu and Japanese. Image File history File links Pingali_venkayya. ... Image File history File links Pingali_venkayya. ... August 2 is the 214th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (215th in leap years), with 151 days remaining. ... 1876 (MDCCCLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Saturday. ... July 4 is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 180 days remaining. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... Indian National Flag Flag ratio: 2:3 The National Flag of India was adopted in its present form during an ad hoc meeting of the Constituent Assembly held on the 22 July 1947, a few days before Indias independence from the British on the 15 August, 1947. ... Machilipatnam, also known as Masulipatnam or Bandar, is a city on the southeastern or Coromandel Coast of India. ... Machilipatnam, also known as Masulipatnam or Bandar or Masula (for short among Finnish mission workers ), is a city on the southeastern or Coromandel Coast of India. ... Andhra Pradesh : (Telugu: ఆంధ్ర ప్రదేశ్, Hindi: आंध्र प्रदेश; Āndhra Prādesh), is a state in South India but is also debated as Central India as well. ... Colombo (කොළඹ in Sinhala; கொழும்பு in Tamil) is the largest city and commercial hub of Sri Lanka, located on the southwest coast adjacent to the present capital city of Kotte. ... Bellary is a city and district in Karnataka state, India. ... The Minar-e-Pakistan represents Pakistani independence The Hazuri Bagh, looking towards the Roshnai Gate Lahore (Urdu: لاہور; Hindi: लाहौर) is a major city of Pakistan and is the capital of the province of Punjab. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

From 1906 to 1911, Pingali spent most of his time researching staple varieties of crops and came up with a study on a special variety called Cambodia Cotton. With the British colonial rulers taking notice of his study, Pingali came to be known as Patti Venkayya (literally 'Cotton Venkayya'). 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... The British Empire in 1897, marked in pink, the traditional colour for Imperial British dominions on maps. ...

Returning to Masulipatnam, he spent 5 years from 1916 to 1921 researching flags of 30 countries and finally came up with the present tricolor. However, the flag of the Vande Mataram movement is sometimes thought to be the antecedent of Venkayya's tricolor. He was a great follower of Mahatma Gandhi. 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Vande Mataram (in Bangla: বন্দে মাতরম)is the national song of India. ...