Andhra man sells off house to fulfil Tricolour dream

HYDERABAD: Weaving the Tricolour as a single fabric without any stitch or attachment was the dream of R Satyanarayana, a handloom weaver from Andhra Pradesh. And when he needed Rs 6.5 lakh to realise this dream, he sold off his house .
The 8 feet by 12 feet national flag is a one of a kind experiment. He claims there are no such flags available as the saffron, white and green khadi bands are generally stitched together. Satyanarayana has now taken his dream a step further – he wants his Tricolour hoisted atop the Red Fort.
The weaver from Vemavaram village handed over the flag to PM Modi when he visited Visakhapatnam recently but he did not get a chance to explain its uniqueness.
To meet the costs of making the flag, he sold his ancestral house and spent four years weaving the flag. Asked how he developed interest in making the flag, he said he had watched a short film titled ‘Little Indians’, where the actor stitched the three colours of the flag together.