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Remembering the eminent
Last fortnight, Visakhapatnam witnessed a series of functions organised paying tributes to eminent persons who were paragons of dedicated service to society, its welfare and reformation.
First it was the 102nd jayanti celebration of the late N.G. Ranga, the renowned crusader for justice to the farmer. Veluvolu Trust organised the function near his statue on Beach Road and felicitated the senior corporator, G. Sambasiva Rao, the member of Sri Kanakamahalakshmi Devasthanam Trsut Board, S. Koteswaramma, and the manager of Kalabharati, V. Bhaskara Rao. The Telugu Desam MP, M.V.V.S. Murthy, the Mayor, Rajana Ramani, the former Vice-Chancellor of Andhra University, K. Ramakrishna Rao, and the former professor of social work, B.R.K. Raju, spoke eulogising the services of Ranga. The trust founder, V. Basavapunnaiah, proposed a vote of thanks.
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Commemorating the 23rd death anniversary of the statesman and founder of the Visakha Saraswataka Vedika, Tenneti Viswanadham, whose is a household name in Uttarandhra, a function was held in Srikrishna Ashram. Presided over by Diwakarla Rammurthy, it had a marked start with Vedapathanam by Sripaada Krishnamurthy and Musthi Venkateswara Ghanapati. A young vedic teacher, Manasa Charan Misra, was felicitated with the Tenneti Vaidika Puraskar. Misra is an exponent ofSama Vedam at the Maadipadu Veda Viswavidyalaya and a specialist in one of its branches called Koudhama Sakha, a blessed renaissance brought out by the Kanchi Paramacharya.
The principal of the Gouthami Oriental Degree College in Rajahmundry and a renowned Vyakarana pundit, Viswanadha Gopalakrishna Sastry, was the choice this year for the Tenneti Sastra Puraskar. The function concluded with an eloquent pravachanam by Sastry. D. Bhaskara Murthy, convener of the programme, proposed a vote of thanks.
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An enlightening talk on ''Raavi Sastry's sahityam and samaajika drikpadham' delivered under the auspices of Sahitya Surabhi by its president, V. Kalyana Rama Rao, was another interesting literary feature last week, commemorating the ninth death anniversary of Sastry. The reformist writer's elucidation of the enormous agony suffered by the poor and the downtrodden with an empathetic concern on one hand and his contempt for the feudalistic and capitalistic policies on the other in his short stories, novels and plays was lucidly analysed by G. Atchutharama Raju, M. Ramakoti, A. Appala Naidu, Rambhatla N. Sarma, Kotturti Bhaskara Rao and Oruganti Narasimham. The Surabhi vice-president, P.V.R. Krishnamurthy, proposed a vote of thanks.
A.R.S.
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