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MelodY in the aIR: Mrudangam exponent Yella Venkateswara Rao (centre) giving a concert at Mahati auditorium in Tirupati on Thursday. TIRUPATI: The penultimate day of the ‘Telugu Bhasha Brahmotsavalu’ witnessed clarion call on the need to protect future generations from the engulfing ‘language pollution’. Speaking on ‘Children in mother tongue movement’, Ch. Anantalakshmi cited family, school and the media as the major pollutants proving to be a barrier between children and their mother tongue. She felt that spoken Telugu institutes could be a painful, yet distant reality, if corrective steps are not taken now. Revolutionary literatureIn his talk on modern and revolutionary literature, Telakapalli Ravi saw the effort to restore Telugu’s glory as a revolutionary step. “One would speak in mother tongue when tempers run high or emotions surge, but we Telugus scream in English,” was his tongue-in-cheek remark. Presiding over the session, P. Lakshminarayana saw western influence behind the mad rush for Harry Potter books and in contrast, wanted voluntary response for the Telugu ‘Pedda Bala Siksha’. Psychotherapist B.V.Pattabhiram saw language as the index of one’s personality and urged parents to nurture their kids by focusing on proper use of language and communication skills. As the “highly-inflammatory” kids of today could easily get provoked, he wanted the parents to take refuge in the good Telugu works to bring them on the right path. In the afternoon session, film writer Suddala Ashok Teja spoke on ‘Women in folk literature’, wherein he observed the grace of the rural women singing out their heart in their own dialect. Folk literature ignored“Folk literature is often belittled, but they need to be popularised,” he said. S.V. Satyanarayana lauded Gurazada, Gidugu Ramamurthy, Sri Sri for their cause of ‘Udyama Sahityam’, who cared to lend an ear to the people’s woes. “Be it the Telangana armed struggle or the Leftist movement, language helped in igniting people’s minds,” he said. M.Srimannarayana spoke on ‘Viswanatha Ramayanam’ and Y. Kasipathi on ‘Newspapers in service of the language’, while Dr. Sikhamani presided. Yella Venkateswara Rao gave a Mrudangam concert, while Vanaja Uday and Madhavi Mala performed a dance ballet on ‘Annamayya Sankirtan’.
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