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Badruddin Faiz Tyabji was a senior Indian Civil Service officer, who served as Vice-Chancellor of the Aligarh Muslim University, from 1962 to 1965. While serving as a diplomat in 1948, he had undertaken the task of starting the Embassy of India, Brussels. He also served as Indian ambassador in Jakarta , Tehran, Bonn and Tokyo.
His wife, Suraiya Tayabji had designed the present national flag of India. She modified the flag designed by Pingali Venkaiah (Implementing the ideas of Gandhiji). The flag designed by Venkaia-ji had spinning wheel, Suraiya-ji modified that to Ashok Chakra, on the honour to Great Emperor Ashok who is accepted by people of all Indian religions. I
It was approved , accepted and adopted in its present form during a meeting of the Constituent Assembly held on 22 July 1947, and it became the official flag of the Dominion of India on 15 August 1.947
His daughter is Laila Tyabji, a Padma Shri awardee. His grand-father was the Indian National Congress leader, Badruddin Tyabji.