TELUGU
Literary anthology
SAROJINI PREMCHAND
KALAALU-SANKALANAALU: T. L. Kantharao; Visalaandhra Publishing House, 4-1-435, Bank street , Hyderabad-500001. Rs. 75.
WHETHER IT is a short story or free verse, Kantharao has the knack to scan it with his perceptive eye and feel the pulse of the writing and the writer’s mind.
There are 44 essays in this book each offering an in-depth review of the work by a well-known author or a young poet. He strongly feels that a good poet can make darkness transparent. And for this he or she has to have along with a sensitive heart creative imagination.
The reader also must know how to read poetry, because to read poetry is to read life. Gates were widely opened to new poetry by Gurajada when he loosened the shackles of pedantry and structured forms. The literary world was and is still flooded with an overwhelming quantity of poetic output. Kantharao’s standpoint is this: man’s distress is directly related to the social, economic and political conditions. Therefore a radical revolution is the only path to the better world the poet is dreaming of. His appraisal of poets from Thilak to Ismail, Rangarao, Nirmala and Rawoof and many others is from this position.
There are other critical essays on the short stories of renowned writers such as Sripada, Butchibabu, Burra and Mullapudi .
Kantharao’s is a well-organised approach. He touches upon the intent, assesses the attainment and throws spotlight on smaller or brighter sparks in each case.
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