Re: Telugu quotes in Books

D. Sreenivasa Rao (dsr@VNET.IBM.COM)
Tue, 02 Jan 96 16:36:50 -0500

Sreenivas Paruchuri <sreeni@ktpsp1.uni-paderborn.de> wrote:

>
> Sree parigi was wondering about the Telugu quotes in English books. I am n't
> a CS or EE student, but know a good number of books with Telugu quotes from
> authors of AP origin. Prof. Vidyasagar Matukumalli's (of CAIR, B'lore) books
> Have (customary) Telugu quotes. Infact there was a thread on this topic on
> SCIT in Summer '93. More on that later.
>

About Dr. Vidyasagar, I remember IEEE Spectrum (for the non-CS/EE folks,
IEEE is the world's leading body of CS/EE professionals, and "Spectrum"
is their flagship publication) carried a profile on him, and among other
things, I remember him saying Potana is his favorite poet, and,
"strangely enough, I don't like english poets or telugu prose writers".
I personally cannot agree with this whole-heartedly (I think telugu
short stories are very vibrant, good and of high quality - although
there was a long hiatus during the past 2/3 decades). Any comments
from knowledgible TELUSAers?

Ok, so we have counted Drs. TRN Rao, M Vidyasagar, JN Reddy, and
Katta Murthy as technical authors with telugu quotes in their
books. Any additions? I have to check whether Dr. Rao Vemuri's books
do too.....

--sreenivas-- dsr@vnet.ibm.com