QUESTION
Why PINGALI VENKAYYA, also known as ‘Cotton Venkayya’ and ‘Diamond Venkayya’. ?
ANSWER
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 rulers taking notice of his study, Pingali came to be known as Patti Venkayya (literally ‘Cotton Venkayya’). He was immensely knowledgeable in geology and obtained a doctorate in it. He was an authority on diamond mining in Andhra Pradesh and was popularly known as ‘Diamond Venkayya’. He spent 5 years 1916-21 researching flags of 30 countries and finally came up with the present tricolor. However, the flag of the Vandmataram movement is sometimes thought to be the antecedent of Venkayya’s tricolor.
In the year 2009 a postage stamp was issued to honour his contributions for the freedom struggle. In 2015 the month of January , a statue of Venkayya was unveiled in the forelawns of the AIR ( All India Radio) building Vijayawada. Pingali Venkayya was also proficient in many languages including Urdu and Japanese.
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