AP weavers want hand-spun single-roll flag atop Red Fort

Mahatma Gandhi once said “a flag is a necessity for all nations. Millions have died for it. It is no doubt a kind of idolatry which it would be a sin to destroy.”

- Umamaheswara Rao

And living up to Gandhiji’s saying, R Satyanarayana, a weaver from West Godavari district, has devoted his life and spent all his earnings to produce a handwoven flag to see it fluttering on the Red Fort. He literally devoted his blood, sweat and tears to weave a unique handmade national flag without any joints or stitches. This feat took him lakhs of investment and four long years of hard work, passion, patience and even troubles. Generally, pieces of cloth of different colours are stitched together to make the flag.

He produced this flag, measuring 8 x 12 feet in size, after he came to know that a flag of the same dimensions is hoisted from Red Fort on every August 15. But his dream of his flag being unfurled from the Red Fort has remained unfulfilled..