Dear friends and well-wishers’ of Telangana,
DT [Discover Telangana] is proud to present the inaugural issue of “Telugu Gadda” a Telangana weekly started on Deepavali of 1969 (9 November 1969). By Late Mamidi Ramakantha Rao, He was editor and publisher for this weekly.
He was later arrested, jailed and was ‘missing’ for three years. He later worked as journalist for Saayankalam, Current weekly, National Herald among other journals. He was with Andhra Bhoomi as sub editor till he quit or was arrested in 1969.
He was a staunch advocate of Telangana cause that he dedicated his writing career all through. He traveled extensively in Maharashtra and Telangana region during the movement for separate Telangana. His colleagues used to publish a cyclostyled magazine from Bhivandi. It was published for several years and was in support of Telangana cause.
Those interested in media during the 1969 Telangana movement may find these archives of interest. We have copies of three issues of Telugugadda. We shall post more of his writings as we succeed in collecting his writings which include Janajeevana weekly from Warangal around 1960, translations of Ghalib’s ghazals into Telugu, short stories, poetry, literary criticism, etc
Please share it with others interested in the subject. We would be grateful if anybody helps in collection of his writings and knowing more about his writings and life.
Yours sincerely,
Mamidi Bharath Bhushan
President, Telangana Utsav Committee
[We sincerely thank Mamidi Ramakantha Rao who started this weekly in 1969, and also his son Mamidi Bharath Bhushan who brought these copies of ‘Telugu Gadda’ to light in the context of the contemporary Telangana Movement.]
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We, humans, always want new things to happen. That is what the human quest drives, right from Harappa days back from 2500 BC. That elevates the progress with innovation. Humans do not inherit a piece of land, but inherit culture and legacy.
As we progress on communication skills, we want to preserve and improve our legacy learned in a hard way and brick by brick. We do separate into small groups and achieve dramatic results in most of the fields. This works very well when the system is honest and sincere. We should not expect the same results in seconds, days, months in unstructured systems. Sometimes, we invest those months in coming years and centuries for the welfare of next generations building the solutions for future problems. Most times, the history (whether it is good or bad) always teaches lessons. You can take good and leave bad. Sometimes, good and bad become relative terms.
In 230 BC, Satavahanas had a vision on developing Telugu Gadda for next generations. Our Andhra Pradesh was flourished with great culture due to hard work done by our forefathers. As the globe grows for greediness, we feel insecure and fall into the hands of evil and filthy activities forgetting the future of our children and grandchildren.
Though politics is the finest and critical field where sacrifice and public service are the core components, our telugu political system was so corrupt that declares publically that it is politician’s birth right to swallow the tax payer’s money as incentive for his or her public service, though a reasonable salary and high perks are paid.
Now, the innocent tax-payers are insecure and have no option except following the leaders promoting corruption farther deep and it has become part of our culture.
This will be pervasive and will not go away even if you separate into as many pieces as you may wish. In addition, you will become more insecure when the politicians drive the poor from one place to the other. Thus we have to deal with the refugees from one area to the other. This will create more animosity like the one happened during India and Pakistan separation as Mahatma Gandhi thought that we may separate as “brothers”.
MY point is – the world is becoming smaller with great communication vehicles called “Internet” and “media”. We can focus and solve root cause of a problem, not escaping by separation. The same problem will prevail as virus forever. US forefathers (from different countries) really thought about it, and made a law not separating further the US states.
We are really trapped by these politicians who eat away all the tax payers’ money, not allowing a dime to the ground. We have to think for many generations to come, not just for 50 or 100 years. We have a great culture and let us preserve as one. Let us fight against corruption and save Telugugadda, the land of entire telugu community.