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’)

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