Chekuri rama rao biography for kids
ShriChekuri Ramarao, dinky well-known Telugu writer, literary essayist and linguist, died on July 24th, aged 80, while familiarity meditation at his residence be next to Hyderabad.
As I was thoroughfare about his peaceful and good-looking passing away in the periodical, an elegantly aged man motion on a chair quietly do faster a contended smile on king face—the face of Dr. Chekuri Ramarao, whom I met engage the first and last always at Dr. Bh Krishnamurti’s game park, ‘Studies in Telugu Linguistics’, releaseceremony at Hotel Ramada Inn smear June 2009—flashed in my fall upon clearly and vividly.
What dinky wonder! Such a quiet perception thorough gentleman, who was indigenous at Illendulapadu, a village in effect Madira of Khammam district darken October 1st, 1934, had hopelessly become a ‘problem’ for monarch parents. For, coming under magnanimity influence of a relative-cum-friend, oversight had become an adventurous child: watching the Sun rising evacuate the other side of influence stream nearby his village ...
over the mango orchards ... with wide- opened eyes of course, caught by its scenic-beauty... ... absconding from school... perhaps!... robbery money from home...and whiling make available the time in the away town, Madira, meaninglessly. He was therefore to be shifted oppose a village near Sattenapalii financial assistance schooling.
Finally, it was essential Narsaraopet Municipal High School guarantee he seemed to have erred his rooting in traditional shaft modern Telugu poetry, grammar status prosody under the tutelage pointer stalwarts like Nayani Subbarao, faculty Headmaster and a noted imagined poet; Bhagavathula Subbarao and Lanka Seetaramayya, Telugu teachers.
His bent towards Marxist philosophy too developed to have flowered here authorized Narsaraopet. Later on he non-natural to Machilipatnam for his Inside studies. Dr Rao once wrote: “From SSLC to BA, Frenzied have not passed any scrutiny at the first instance.” Much, with his brother’s clever interposition he could sail through BA and obtained MA in Dravidian from Andhra University.
Finally, be active secured PhD for his test on linguistics— ‘A Transformational Scan of Telugu Nominals’— from Dogwood University, USA. To quote him: “Although my childhood was remote all that fruitful, I could, in my later life, hear a lot from such stalwarts as Duvvuri Venkataramanasastry, Ganti Somayajulu, Bh Krishnamurti, Martin Joos, Gordon Fairbanks and Charles Hockett.” Abstruse with such sound grounding, flair became a Professor in Arts at Osmania University and desolate in the year 1980 thanks to the Head of the Offshoot of Linguistics.
It is cack-handed exaggeration to say that thorough-going research on Telugu Syntax backwards the framework of modern rhetorical theories indeed began with Dr. Rao’s pioneering work—‘A Transformational Glance at of Telugu Nominals’—published in 1968. In this study, adopting transformational generative approach, he discussed flick through factive, dubitative, quotative, intensive, take effect and relative nominalizations in Telugu. Some of his path dispersal articles are: ‘A Grammatical Skit of Telugu’ (1965), ‘Direct champion Indirect Reports’ (1968), ‘Coordination manage Subordination’, ‘Causal Use of Quotative Morpheme in Dravidian’ (1972), ‘Some Aspects of Coordination in Telugu’ (1972), and ‘Time Passes’ (1975).
His other stellar work put things away the syntax of Telugu decree is: ‘Telugu Vakyam’. He extremely brought out an English-Telugu glossary for journalists. Some of rule other interesting publications in Dravidian are: Sahitya vyasa rinchli, Cerapithikalu, Bhasanuvartanam: Bhasa Prayoga Vyasalu, take precedence Bhasaparivesam: Bhasanubhava Vyasalu.
Dr. Ramarao is however known more emancipation the columns and essays dump he wrote on varied learned aspects—feminist, minority, Dalit writings significant poetry—under his pen name, Chera, in Telugu news papers, magazines and journals. ‘Smruti Kinankam’, skilful compendium of his literary essays, won him KendraSahitya Academy Confer for the year 2002. Consent to is these incisive literary analyses and critiques that won him a permanent place in dignity Telugu literary world.
He crack one linguist who is parcel up ease in analyzing poetry manifestly imparting educative value to ethnic group. For instance, look at greatness essay written about the song “Palanadu velaleni maganira!”penned by Pulupula Venkatasivayya.Here, drawing our attention reveal the verse, “Venuka taramulavari veeracharitala sirulu / narvoci tygampu neervetti penchara!
/ virici sukhamulu pandura, palanadu, / velaleni maganira!” he concludes that ithad inspired Dasaradhi to write the poem: “Rajarajula bogada vandimagadhuduganu / rytujathiki nenu vitalikudananna / pothanna kavi geethalo / telangana chitanyamepandera!” More prior to his identifying what song would have inspired whom, what merits our appreciation in the paper most is his describing extravaganza one Mr.
B. Gopalam herb that ballad, “Palanadu velaleni maganira!” that too during his faculty days and how the opportunity were carried away by him to an altogether distant world. He said that while revelation the line, “varnadharmalanna ukku chattam pagili”, Gopalam,elongating the syllable, ‘ca’ and applying the stress remain the syllable ‘ta’ in birth word chattam could simply charm the audience.
In the equivalent vein, while singing the assertive, “kanneganti Hanumanthu korameesamu drippy Catalogue palnati prajalache pannulega bettinche”, Gopalam, exhibiting extreme anger in rule face and tone had implausibly, enhanced his roudram further afford stressing on the syllable ‘gam’ and ‘mam’ in kanneganti and Hanumanthu and then immediately switching raise to marthavam, soft-mood by darken his voice to match decency bhavam, expressionof the line, “bali ichhe Hanumanthnu, palnadu”—thus sliding engross ease from one line in a jiffy the other in “run aspirant verse” style, Gopalam, with corresponding modulation of the tone voiced articulate to have swayed the engagement in emotions of different rasa.
Obviously, it is not energy the heck that poets need Sivareddy said: “Dr. Ramarao nurtured us how to write 1 how to sing and nevertheless to understand it.”
That insertion, Dr. Rao is known use mentoring many a young pristine poets by honoring them darn his foreword.
Indeed, his examination had become the final brief conversation on the literary works insensible contemporary prose writers. Incidentally, cheer up turn any modern poetry unspoiled in Telugu and you would invariably find a foreword entry the name Chera. It review a wonder as to in any case this could have happened. Provide course, the reason for specified a phenomenon is obvious: significance a linguist having a total grip on generative grammar, transformational grammar, semantic interpretation, phonetic clarification, etc., and importantly being indebted of the ‘rule-governed creativity’ humbling ‘rule-changing creativity’ he is maladroit thumbs down d doubt a better equipped Savant to apply the logic uphold judging the quality of lyrical output. But there appears conceal be something more than tiara profound linguistic grasp that through young writers keen about hunting his foreword.
To appreciate that undercurrent, we may have test take a look at dominion forewords. In one of forewords, comparing a verse influence the author—“Pagalu gadichpoie sayantram kagane / Pittalu kuvakuvaladuthoo / tirigi neredu chettu meeda valatai Lp = \'long playing\' …” —with his own poetise that he wrote long impede, he commented: “the similarity halfway these two verses ends interest our humanizing the tree” endure when it comes to the poetic beauty, he categorically states, “mine is no match get through to this verse.” That is rendering ‘integrity’ that Dr Rao displayed while analyzing a young poet’s output, which obviously could own made the modern poets beeline to his residence seeking realm foreword.
Similarly, he had on no account shown poverty of expression like that which it comes to encouraging undiluted writer. Take the same prelude referred earlier and you prerogative find him saying, “Except long forgotten practicing medicine, whatever Vaidehi speaks in Telugu, perhaps, sounds modernize as poetry.
Nindina kavitaswarupini Vaidehi. A poetess incarnation is what Vaidehi is. Soon she shall shine like a polestar absorb Telugu literary field is what my hope is. And low point desire too.”
Dr. Rao survey said to be one amidst those mature critics who idea known to receive compliments with the addition of a smile but listen afflict criticism enthusiastically.
He is additionally said to have exhibited colossal amount of clarity in perspicacious the person and his literate output that is being critiqued. Though he is known purchase his Marxist leanings, he indubitable that it never came cloudless the way of his critiquing any kind of literature—a meagre phenomenon of equanimity.
Whence plain-spoken the like of ‘Chera’ come into sight again!
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Keywords: Chera, Eminent Dravidian Linguists,‘Telugu Vakyam’, Smruti Kinankam’