Kaloji Narayana Rao - Telangana State Info

Kaloji Smaraka Purskaram Award to Ammangi Venugopal

09/09/2015 By admin

Noted poet and writer Dr Ammangi Venugopal will be the first person of Kaloji Smaraka Purskaram award to be presented on the eve of Kaloji birth anniversary on September 9.

Kaloji Smaraka Purskaram award to Ammangi Venugopal

With Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao being on an official tour in China, Deputy Chief Minister Kadiyam Srihari will honour him at an official programme to be held at Ravindra Bharathi on Wednesday.

It may be mentioned here that Rao earlier announced that Kaloji birthday would be celebrated as Telangana Language Day. Accordingly, official programmes are lined up in 10 districts and also the State capital on this occasion.

Venugopal, hailing from Vikarabad in Ranga Reddy district, was born in 1948. He worked as a lecturer in Government Junior and Degree Colleges in Karimnagar, Medak, Nalgonda and Mahabubnagar districts before retiring as Principal in 2004.

Venugopal’s anthology of poetry includes Minugurulu (1980), Paccha Bottu-Patan Cheru (1999), Bharosa (2008) and Gandham Chettu (in publishing).

He wrote several plays, short stories, literary essays, besides doing translation and research work. The acclaimed writer is presently on Telugu Advisory Board of Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi He was awarded Pratibha Puraskaram by Telugu University in 2001.

Kaloji Award to Lyricist Ammangi Venugopal

Telangana Bhasha Dinotsavam on September 9th

09/07/2015 By admin

The Telangana State will celebrate its language day known as Telangana Bhasha Dinotsavam on September 9 every year to coincide with the birth anniversary of noted Telangana poet Kaloji Narayana Rao.

Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, who held discussions on the same, has decided to declare it as a State function. Kaloji Memorial Award will be instituted in the poet’s honour and would be given away to those who have contributed significantly to Telangana language and literature.

This year, an official function will be held at Ravindra Bharathi on September 9 with ministers in attendance. However, the Chief Minister will give the first Language Day celebrations a miss as he will be in China for World Economic Forum meet between September 7 and 16.

It would be pertinent to note that Telangana government has given up celebrating the Telugu Language Day on August 29 to mark the birth anniversary of Gidugu Venkata Ramamurthy, who championed the cause of using comprehensible language in literary texts.

Meanwhile, Kaloji Narayana Rao a prolific writer and poet in Telugu, Hindi, Marathi, and Urdu is credited for his activist writing and vocal support for the cause of Telangana. A Padma Vibhushan recipient, he is also highly respected as a political activist who staunchly opposed the feudal attitude of Nizams.

All the district administrations have been instructed to organise celebrations on a grand scale. The education department has been ordered to conduct debate, essay writing, poetry competitions in schools to celebrate the day.

Source: The New Indian Express