by Nidadavolu Malathi I have known Sri Munipalle Raju for over 60 years. I have come to know of his experiments with magical realism only in April 2014, when I started working on a translation of his anthology, Astitvanadam Aavali…
Tag: Telugu stories
Recapturing traditions in fiction by Nidadavolu Malathi
I was twelve or thirteen at the time. A young man used to come to our house for meals once a week. I do not know where he is now or what he is doing. Nevertheless I have this one…
The Wake up Song they Sang y P. Sridevi.
Ramam was walking slowly, watching his steps. He was new to walking on a concrete road. The rain just stopped. The sun was blazing forth in full blast. It was still midday, nowhere near cooling down. The cement road was…
Coral Chain by Achanta Saradadevi
It was getting dark. Far away, the sun between two hills looked like a blood red sphere; the heat was gone. (Copyright artist: Rambabu Arle) The shades of lavishly floating clouds resembled leaves, flowers and small hills, and the sun…
The Native Element in Telugu stories By Nidadavolu Malathi.
We read stories—Russian, Chinese, Japanese, African—and learn about their culture. Some stories tell us we are not different. Their customs, habits, perceptions, social consciousness, family values and ethics appear to be so close to ours. They cry in the same…
The Small Wheel
By Nidadavolu Malathi. “The deeyivoo (District Educational Officer) saar is coming.” The school peon Venkanna usually arrives at the headmaster’s house at six in the morning. That day he woke up at midnight and started getting ready because the “deeyivoo…
Urban Characters in Telugu Fiction of the Sixties and Seventies.
By Nidadavolu Malathi. Traditionally the city has been treated in Telugu literature as a place of riches and freedom, and city as something to which people should aspire. Traditional writers have always portrayed the city in all its glory, even…
Fortune Follows Courage by Icchapurapu Jagannatha Rao
Sudarsanam finished the lesson for the day and the girls left. He was getting ready to leave. Usually Padmini would show up at this time every day to inquire how the teaching was going. She walked in so softly into…
The Truth about Desires by Balivada Kantha Rao
In the final days of his life, Ramayya was thinking of the events in his life. It felt like they had happened just yesterday or the day before. Exactly thirty years back, he had come to this town wearing a…
Wedding Garments by Ravuru Venkata Satyanarayana Rao.
Puttanna owned a hut with two center beams. He put up the two beams to provide a shade over their heads. Actually, the husband and wife had been the two beams for that hut. Puttanna and Sitamma were of the…