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Book Review
TELUGU
Multifaceted personality
SAROJINI PREMCHAND
KASINATHUNI NAGESWARA RAO: Potturi Venkateswara Rao; Sahitya Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, 35, Ferozeshah Road, New Delhi-110001. Rs. 25.
THIS MONOGRAPH under the series “Makers of Indian literature” illustrates the life of a pioneer in the publication of Telugu journals who was also a nationalist, industrialist, philanthropist and social reformer.
Much before the Harijan movement caught the attention of the nation Nageswara Rao (1867-1938) started a school in his native village Elakurru in Krishna District with the condition that there should not be any discrimination. Later Gandhiji wrote in Young India about his selfless service describing him as an “embodiment of truth and modesty.”
Through the publication of Andhrapatrika, a weekly in 1908, which became a daily newspaper in 1914, he awakened aspirations for an independent India and love for Telugu language and culture. The author of this biography Potturi has brought out his multifaceted personality admirably in well-planned chapters. He has deftly drawn graphic accounts of the role played by earlier journals in raising political awareness in Andhra Pradesh and also their contribution to the development of language and literature. Perhaps this is imperative since his whole life was dedicated to these causes.
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