TIRUPATI : Speakers at a session on `Telangana literature' explained that the roots of Telangana armed struggle against the tyrannical Nizam rule in the erstwhile Hyderabad State lay in the people's concern to protect their basic rights, landholdings and language, which were on the verge of being lost forever.

As part of the week-long Telugu literary programme conducted by TUDA Sahiti Samskruti Vaarotsavalu the sessions focussed on Telangana and revolutionary literature on Tuesday.

Speaking on `Telangana porata patalu', film lyricist Suddala Ashok Teja said that revolution was not born from songs and it was only the outburst of revolutionary thoughts that became songs. However, he added that awe-inspiring songs always succeeded in catalysing the process of revolution and creating an awakening. The Nizam rule was known for blatant violation of human rights, abject poverty, bonded labour, denial of land and food and last, but not the least, insult to Telugu language that led to the rising.

Telugu Mahasabha

Litterateur Y.V. Satyanarayana, in his address on `Veera Telangana sahityam', said that the struggle started when Telugu was insulted by the Nizams in 1921, that gave birth to the Telugu Mahasabha, which spearheaded the movement against the Nizam rule. "So much was the love the Telugus had for their mother tongue," he said.

Jayadheer Tirumala Rao explained how Telugu folk literature and classical art were distinct in their own way.

Earlier, in the session on `Revolutionary literature', Naleshwaram Shankar spoke on Chalam's soft corner for the oppressed women in a male chauvinist society, that led to his branding as a `feminist'. "Chalam's oft-spoken quote that a woman's brain needed to be filled with knowledge means much more than what it appears to convey," he added.

Jwalamukhi spoke on Sri Sri's concern for the oppressed classes and his clarion call to the Telugus to rise to the occasion. "Sri Sri's magnum opus, Mahaprasthanam, is the heartbeat of every Telugu speaking person," he concluded. A. Rammohan Rao presided, while Intelligence SP Shyam Sundar, and TUDA chairman B. Karunakar Reddy spoke.

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