A study conducted by Voice of Telangana President and Hyderabadi historian Capt. Lingala Panduranga Reddy found that the Indian tricolour was not designed by Venkaiah but a Hyderabadi woman named Suraiyya Tyabji.
The Indian national flag, which the constituent assembly authorized on July 22, 1947, is often credited to Pingali Venkaiah as its designer. In 1921, at a meeting of the All India Congress Committee in Bezawada, he introduced the concept of the flag. Contrary to widespread opinion, the final design of our current national flag was made by Hyderabadi woman Suraiyya Tyabji.
Designing the National Emblem
A flag committee led by Dr. Rajendra Prasad was formed to create a national symbol for Indians, and Suraiyya's husband Badruddin Tyabji, an Indian civil servant, was a member. The committee members discovered British imagery in the hundreds of designs that were submitted.
Suraiyya then transformed the Lion Capital from the Sarnath Ashoka Pillar into the ...