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For the love of the language
A. RAMALINGA SASTRY
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C.P. Brown was remembered for his invaluable service to Telugu language.
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The most recent contribution to literature by Prasanna Bharati, a literary Trust which publishes a quarterly magazine with the same name in Telugu, was a brief biography of Charles Phillip Brown (10-11-1798 -- 12-12-1884). Its founder manager, prolif
ic writer-poet Kavisekhara Kondepudi Subbarao who’s hailed as a literary classicist scripted it. Noted promoter of Telugu literature, former MP M.V.V.S. Murty financed the project of its publication in book form. It was released by AU Prof. in Hindi, noted writer Padma Shri Yarlagadda Lakshmiprasad at a simple function coinciding with the 209th birthday of C.P. Brown on Saturday in the Visakha Public Library. Both Prof. Prasad and Murty speaking on the occasion opined that the value of the effort by the Kavisekhara and its outcome is beyond any assessment. It is symbolic of gratitude of all the people whose mother tongue is Telugu. Telugu world owes to C.P. Brown for his invaluable service promoting Telugu literature. No wonder, it stands marked as C.P. Brown’s era of all round development in the more than 1000-year-old history of Telugu literature, they observed.
Kondepudi recited some of the eulogistic poems he composed on Brown and included in his prelude in the book.
Former Telugu Professor of BHU Bayya Suryanarayana and especially AU Professor Acharya Sarvabhauma Vedula Subrahmanya Sastry explicated the contents of the book later. They were all praised for the way Kondepudi elucidated the relentless zeal with which Chalres Phillip not only retrieved many a valuable work in Telugu written on palm leaves from going into the oblivion but also got them re-written on papers and authored their publication along with erudite comments by eminent writers. The Kavisekhara also brought out a vivid panorama of all other facets of the life of Brown who came as an employee of the East India Company of the British in 1817, his service in various cadres including as a Registrar and Collector, establisher of many a school, a retriever of Telugu literature , his own contribution to it as a translator and profound writer by himself in Telugu, finally a Professor in Telugu in the London University and his last phase of life till he died at the age of 86. Former Professor in AU Mathematics P.V. Krishnaiah well compeered the programme and presented a vote of thanks.
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