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Stones inspire their creativity

S. Ramu

POETRY IN STONE: Jagannatham giving finishing touches to a stone tiger under the supervision of K.R.Bh.N. Chakravarthy at their `Green-Stones Park' at Nalgonda. — PHOTO: NAGARA GOPAL

NALGONDA: The duo is, literally, leaving no stone unturned to create a unique park in the heart of the district headquarters. They collected stones, chips and pebbles in the backyard of their office and gave a beautiful shape to a `Green Stones Park' worth a visit.

Meet Karri Raja Bhouma Harinarayana Chakravarthy, Special Collector (Land Acquisition), Pulichintala Project and Yepuri Jagannatham, an attendant in his office. The ugliest backyard in the town turned out to be a rare garden with their aesthetic sense and creative talent. Mr. Jagannatham, who mastered the art of segregating stones and chips into maximum number of varieties basing on their size, shape and colour, created stunning figures like tiger, crocodile, peacock, butterfly, snake, lotus, dharma charka, India map and religious symbols in between the plants the garden spread in 500 square yards.

Geometrical figures

Mr. Chakravarthy, who took master's degree in Mathematics from Osmania University, displayed spectacular geometrical figures such as trapezium, parallelogram and rhombus in single structure using different colours of stones.

"We produced all these stone structures without using any material and we didn't spend a single paise either," the soft-spoken Special Collector said. "My mother, Tirupatamma, used to arrange boundary walls using various colours of boulders. She inspired me to take up this project, " he revealed.

Patience is Mr. Jagannatham's forte and he is always busy collecting and segregating stones in the garden. He gives shape to the ideas of his master.

"My boss taught me the art of segregating chips. Give me some stones or chips, I can separate them into five to six lots basing on their size, shape and colour," Mr. Jagannatham said.

The staff of the Land Acquisition office is really proud of this unique park. Mr.Chakravarthy is preparing proposals to find a place for this garden in record books.

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