Date:04/12/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/12/04/stories/2008120454370400.htm

Andhra Pradesh

Literary critic passes away

SANGAREDDY: Famous literary critic Mullapudi Sachidananda Murthy passed away here in the wee hours of Wednesday. He was 80. Last rites were performed in town in the evening. Born in 1929, Murthy worked as Telugu lecturer at Nalgonda before he retired. Prominent as a good speaker, poet and story writer, Murthy ran Sahiti Ranjai, a literary organisation in Sangareddy. He wrote books like Telugu Bidda, Panimanishi, Vendikonda Pavuralu and Veerabhadra Mahatyam. -Staff Reporter