If the good Captain can access the TELUSA Homepage, he would find a
post by adiyan, extolling VVR's story-telling skills, and his unique
literary style. Many of the weekly telugu magazines in AP have
published his stories, science-fiction, science essays. I think he
has an interesting article in each of the major conference souvenirs
published in this country.
His writings in Telugu can be read at several levels. One can read
them and understand some scientific principles, or at the least an
exposure to them. One can read them to get a flavour of the tuni/taNuku
regional variation of telugu language. Forget the dialect. One can
read them to see how expertly the language gets crafted by an expert,
with an apt idiom here, and a quote there, and a nuDikAram in places.
And one can read them for a nice story that he invariably tells.
brahmAnDam baddalayyindi, kAkatALeeyam, emergency ward kathalu,
rasagandhAya rasAyanam (chemistry book), jeeva-rahsyam (on genetics),
dating mahAbhArata war,... these are a few of the titles that I can
offhand remember. And then there is his magnum opus, a technical
(not purely technical) telugu-english-telugu dictionary that he is
about to publish.
mashTArU, maracipOyAnu - he has articles on cholesterol, heart-attacks,
astronomy, ... some of which occasionally he posted on SCIT, when
he saw a context for such.
Ramakrishna