Litterateur honoured
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B. Ramagopalam, popularly known as Bharago, was honoured on his 75th birthday.
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Bhamidipati Ramagopalam
Celebrating the 75th birthday of the many an award winner including that of the Central Sahitya Akademi and recipient of felicitations from literary bodies all over the country, Bhamidipati Ramagopalam, popularly known as Bharago, reputed literary associations Mosaic and Eskay Foundation jointly organised a grand ceremony honouring him.
Born as the first child of Suryanarayana (elementary school teacher) and Suramma on February 6, 1932 in Pushpagiri near Alamanda in Vizianagaram district, Bharago had a chequered career in education till he passed B.A. (Economics) when he attracted the attention of Chaso when he was 18 with his first short story Pitchuka Kadha. Working as a surveyor, he got married to Satyabhama, an acclaimed connoisseur of literature and music in April 1955 and obtained M.A. fromBhagalpur and Andhra Universities in 1964 and 1971 respectively.
Bharago today stands credited with about 170 stories in long and short forms, like Kadhanakuthuhalam, Saradaakathalu, Kulasakathalu and others, three novels Kundapenkulu, Sparsarekha and Naakee Udyogam Voddu, over 1000 critiques in Telugu and English on all cultural matters including cinema and cine-music, translation of the biography of Ashutosh Mukherjee and Anushtana Bhagavadgita from English into Telugu and Kalpasootram from Prakrit to Telugu, besides compilation of 116 Telugu film hit songs on CDs twice along with commentary. Replete with witty satire and satirical wit, his literary works instantly create convivial humour but not without empathetically touching the chords of readers hearts.
Like the works of Charlie Chaplin, they evoke gracious comeliness besides moral, ethical and human values and the value of congenial human relations.
The main reason lies in his soulful concern for all the down on the earth processes that bog the society and his heart-felt desire to invariably adopt them as the central point in all his literary works and knit a story around it enchantingly in the naive niche of his own, the galaxy of speakers poets opined on the occasion.
A.R.S.
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