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`Need to preserve Telugu culture'

Staff Reporter

UGADI HONOUR: World Telugu Federation president V.L. Indira Dutt (third left) being felicitated on her appointment as chairperson, Women's Entrepreneur Wing of SAARC, at the Ugadi celebrations organised in the city on Tuesday. - Photo: K. Ananthan

COIMBATORE: Preserving Telugu culture and promoting the Telugu language were some of the important issues that were highlighted by the speakers at the Ugadi celebrations, jointly organised by the World Telugu Federation (WTF), Coimbatore Region, and the Telugu Samithi, Coimbatore, here on Tuesday.

Lauding the Telugu community on leading a harmonious life in Coimbatore, Rajshree Pathy, chairperson and managing director of Rajshree Sugars and Chemicals Limited, exhorted the youth to make sincere efforts to learn the Telugu language.

Language classes

"This city was built by Andhra migrants who came here long back and we still maintain a certain bonding. But it is a pity that we have not learnt to speak the language. The weekend language classes that the Samithi has planned for the children will help our people preserve the culture," she said.

V.L. Indira Dutt, president of WTF and chairperson of Women's Entrepreneur Wing of SAARC, urged the invitees to start clubs in all cities to develop the Telugu language. She also underlined the need for celebrating festivals by coming together under a single roof, as a family.

Telugu film producer Aswini Dutt spoke on the greatness of the Telugu language that was acclaimed to be a musical language.

ASN Murthy, vice-chairman of WTF, Coimbatore region, said that though the Samithi had a roving membership, it saw to that the activities that it was involved in were of social relevance. He also made an announcement to the invitees about the weekend Telugu classes the Samithi was about to begin at Mani High School that would enable the children of the Telugu speaking community to learn their mother tongue.

Rama Vasi Reddy, chairperson of WTF, Coimbatore region, A. Chandranna, president of the Telugu Samithi, and S. Jayashree Rao, secretary general of WTF, spoke on the occasion.

Earlier a `Panchanga Sravanam' was held where the invitees got to know of the ensuing year's prospects. A dance ballet `Thirupathi Vaibhavam' by Sangeetha Nrithya Kalasala from Tirupati came as a grand finale to the two-day long celebrations.

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