Monday, 28 August 2017

Gidugu Venkata Ramamurthy

My pencil sketch of Gidugu Venkata Ramamurthy

Gidugu Venkata Ramamurthy (1863-1940) was a Telugu writer and one of the earliest modern Telugu linguists and social visionaries during the British rule. He championed the cause of using a language comprehensible to the common man (‘Vyavaharika Bhasha’) as opposed to the scholastic language (‘Grandhika Bhasha’)

The song of Sarita

 The Song of Sarita The aroma of freshly filter coffee always filled the morning air in Ponnada. It was Sarita's signature scent, a warm...