The centenary of the first ever draft design of the Indian national flag is on March 31. It was on this day in 1921 that a young freedom fighter Pingali Venkayya presented the draft design of the ...

In 1916, he even published a booklet on flags of other nations, ‘A National Flag for India’, offering nearly thirty designs of what could make the Indian flag. Throughout all Congress sessions between ...

Venkayya went on to design many models of the national flag. It was in 1921 when Mahatma Gandhi approved a design at the Indian National Congress meeting in Vijayawada. The version presented by ...