Malapalli: A Milestone in the History of Telugu Fiction and What it means for today’s non-scholar reader. . First, I would like make clear that this is not a translation or a critical review but a modest attempt to introduce…
Big chunks of clouds are scurrying around in the sky as if they are in a hurry. A small white fleck of cloud slithers one way and another baby cloud another way. Then the two chunks stop in the middle…
It is Sunday. Neelaveni is bored. Color of skin—a play being shown in town, she recalls. “Let’s go to the play,” she says to her husband, Sundaram. He looks up. “Play? Um. That’d be nice. But I need to finish…
For a decade or so, Telugu scholars started discussing the works of Bhandaru Acchamamba’s works, primarily in an attempt to show that she is the first writer among males and females to write a well-developed Telugu story in the mdoern…
In the past, we have featured an analytical review of Bhandaru Acchamamba’s contribution to Telugu literature (written by Kondaveeti Satyavati) and two stories written by Acchamamba. Recently, I have come across Acchamamba’s monumental work, abalaa saccharitra ratnamala [Biographies of Laudable…