Honouring the genius
A. RAMALINGA SASTRY
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Medasani Mohan was honoured for his contributions toTelugu literature.
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AWARDS GALORE Medasani Mohan being awarded the Kopparapu Kavula Puraskar.
Director of Annamacharya, Alwar Divya Prabandha and Srimad Bhagavatha Projects of TTD, ex-officio member of its publications committee and Asthan pundit of Ahobila Mutt, Medasani Mohan was felicitated by Kopparapu Kavula Kalaapeetham on the occasion of its IV anniversary at Visakhapatnam..
With an aim to collect and get all available information, especially the recorded versions of the poems the poet duo (Venkatasubbaraya Kavi - November 1885 - March 1932 and his younger brother Venkataramanayya Kavi - December 1887 - March 1942 who stand hailed as the first and last of their kind rendering 400 poems per hour extempore instantly on any given subject in Avadhanams) published for posterity, their grandson M.Ch.R.M. Subbaraya Sarma who is popularly known as Maa Sarma, established the `peetham' in the name of his maternal grand fathers in 2002. He instituted a Puraskar of Rs.10,000 to be given annually to an eminent person .
The recipient of the Puraskar (the earlier being Peesapati Narasimha Murthy, Veturi Sundrarama Murthy and Bethavolu Ramabrahmam besides Perala) Medasani Mohan was born on April 19, 1955 to Ayyanna Naidu and Lakshmamma at Nadimpalli in Chittoor district. Known for his flair in the art of poetry in Telugu, he obtained the Ph.D from the SVU after doing M.A. Telugu literature in the same university. Author of a number of research articles and books, he successfully guided a couple of researchers for the award of doctoral degrees. With scores of enthralling performances of Ashta, Satha, and Sahasravadhanams for almost all noted literary bodies at home and abroad to his credit, he also performed Dwi, Chaturdha and Shodasagunitha avadhanams a number of times and Sahasranadhanam for the first time in the history of literature in 1996.
No wonder, his bio-data got recorded in the `Who is Who', Directory of Asia and in the Bio-graphic Institute of USA (Texas). For the multi-faceted genius the Puraskar of the Kalapeetham was yet another feather in his cap
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