Pingali Venkayya: The Forgotten Designer of India's Flag

Pingali Venkayya was a soldier who became a scholar and designed the Indian flag.

He didn't get much recognition while he was alive and died poor.

Later, people built a memorial for him, made a stamp with his picture, and named a radio station after him.

Many people think he should have gotten the Bharat Ratna, which is India's highest award, but he never did.

Every Independence Day, the flag he designed is flown high, but he spent his last years waiting for the country to remember him.