ScooNews | Pingali Venkayya: The unsung hero who designed India's National Flag
Controversies continue to bog the actual history of the #IndianNationalFlag. The #Tiranga #Jhanda as we see it today was a result of hard work and efforts made by a freedom fighter from #Andhra, PingaliVenkaiah about whose life and times, very less is known and documented.
#Venkaiah was born on 2nd August 1878 in Peddakallepalli village of Krishna district in #AndhraPradesh to Hanumantha Rayudu and Venkatarathnamma. He was their first child among half a dozen others. He spent the first five years of his life in the house of his maternal grandparents Tehsildar Chalapathi Rao and Seethamma.
After training at the academy, he was sent on duty to #Africa where he participated in the Boer War (1899 -1902). It was during his stay in Africa that he first met# MahatmaGandhi and came under the influence of his ideology.
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