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Reaching the literary heights

Staff Reporter

KADAPA: Vempalli Gangadhar, a Telugu story writer of Kadapa district, finds place among 10 literary doyens such as Mahasweta Devi, Ashapurna Devi, Javed Akhtar and likes in the contemporary Indian literature section on `Indianetzone', an e-magazine on literature.

Gangadhar's book `Molakala Punnami', a collection of 13 short stories, delineates characters from rural background and is full of pathos of the deprivedand reflects the voices of those who depend on land and vagaries of nature.It is a feather in Gangadhar's cap to figure among writers such as Mulk Raj Anand, K.M. Munshi, Jibananda Das, Buddhadev Bose and Dharamvir Bharati and Sunil Gangopadhyay on the site.

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