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Tirupati to host ‘Telugu Bhasha Brahmotsavam’

Staff Reporter

Weeklong literary fete planned towards end of November

Telugu diaspora across the globe to be invited
‘Hundreds of Telugu words have gone out of circulation’

TIRUPATI: For the fourth consecutive year, the temple city of Tirupati is all set to host to the festival of culture and Telugu language.

Telugu Samskruti Vikasa Vedika, a Tirupati-based conglomerate of literary associations and language enthusiasts, is gearing for the mega event.The week-long celebrations will be conducted in the end of November.

As Tirumala-Tirupati witnesses the annual Brahmotsavams twice this year due to an astronomical phenomenon that occurs once in three years, it has been decided to conduct the literary event on a similar scale and hence has been named as ‘Telugu Bhasha Brahmotsavam’.

At a meeting held here on Monday with linguists and scholars to discuss finer details of the event, Vedika president and Tiruma Tirupati Devasthanam Chairman B. Karunakar Reddy announced that for the first time ever, the Telugu diaspora across the globe, including members of Telugu Association of North America (TANA), American Telugu Association (ATA), the Telugu Associations of Detroit, Dubai, Singapore, Kuwait etc. would be invited to take part in the celebrations.On the world getting shrunk to the size of a village post-globalisation, Mr. Reddy expressed pain that the original village and its native traditions had been shattered, cautioning that it would be suicidal for any society to let its traditions die.

“Though linguists exude optimism that the language will survive against all odds, the attack on Telugu is phenomenal and hundreds of words have already gone out of circulation. It is indeed pathetic to give clarion calls to the public to learn their own mother tongue,” he rued.

Octogenarian scholar Mudivarthi Kondamacharyulu, linguists Singaraju Sachidanandam, Avadhani Medasani Mohan, retired IAS officer K.Rami Reddy, editor of TTD’s ‘Sapthagiri’ magazine C. Sailakumar and academician Sakam Nagaraja were among those present at the meet.

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