Former Vice-Chancellor of Telugu University and recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award N. Gopi has said that Gurajada Appa Rao’s writings are widely acclaimed and discussed among litterateurs and whose patriotic song ‘Desamunu Preminchumanna’ is unparallel.
He was speaking at the literary convention organised jointly on the occasion of Gurajada’s Satha Vardhanti by the State Cultural Department and Gurajada Samskritika Samakhya at Ananda Gajapathi Auditorium here on the second day on Monday. Dr. Gopi said: “In my view Gurajada’s patriotic song (Desamunu Preminchumanna) is better than Rabindra Nath Tagore’s Jana Gana Mana, Bankim Chandra Chatterji’s Vande Mataram and Iqbal’s Saare Jahan Se Acha. ”
Former Andhra University professor K. Malayavasini, noted writer Chaganti Tulasi, and writer and senior journalist Ch. Srinivasa Rao spoke on how Gurajada handled relationship between man and woman, literature and slang respectively.
Earlier, MLA Geeta, Collector M.M. Nayak, former member of Official Language Commission A. Gopala Rao, Director of Cultural Department D. Vijaya Bhaskar and others took out a procession and paid rich tributes by garlanding Gurajada’s statue at M.R. Autonomous College.
In Srikakulam, members of the Gurajada Adhyana Vedika on Monday paid rich tributes to Mahakavi Gurajada Apparao on the occasion of his 100th death anniversary in a function organised in Vidyadhari Degree College.
Srikakulam MLA Gunda Lakshmi Devi, Srikakulam Joint Collector P. Rajanikanta Rao, Founder of Vedika Jami Bhimashankar said that Gurajada’s writings inspiring the present generation too indicating the importance of his literary contribution.
