Thursday, October 30, 2008

Pingali Venkayya, Designer of the India's National Flag

NB. Info courtesy: Jay Bee + History Of The Indian Flag & Detailed descriptions of each flag areVijay For Victory


Pingali Venkayya (Telugu:పింగళి వెంకయ్య) (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. 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. More @ Telugupedia

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    4 comments:

    1. AnonymousOctober 31, 2008 at 11:59 AM

      hey, that was prety informative and i actually enjoyed reading it and even went through the link in between..

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    2. Rituraj VyasNovember 1, 2008 at 12:10 PM

      I never knew that!.. and the worst part - never thought of knowing it. But now i will remember this name - Pingali venkayya. Thanks for the info. Keep blogging such posts.

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    3. abzalNovember 14, 2008 at 7:20 PM

      Hey! Recently i came to know that, infact after i came to hyderabad for living :P but why was his design which was selceted ..?

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    4. ABUBAKKAR K MJanuary 22, 2012 at 10:26 PM

      i am really happy to KNOW abut sri PINGALI VENKAYYA . & ITHANK FOR FOR THE PUBLISHER A LOT.

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