regards
prasad
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Veluri V. Rao garu recently posted stirring poems by Jayaprabha and
Savitri which inspired me to throw a brick at a sacred cow whose writings
I appreciated for as long as I can remember.
Rachakonda Viswanatha Sastry, some say, is next only to Ko Ku in
Telugu short story writing. He spent a lifetime writing about the trials
and tribulations of the underdog and arguing on behalf of and bailing out
kids thrown in jail during and after the Srikakulam
movement. In spite of all that, Ra Vi Sastry turned out to be no better
than a Neanderthal when it comes to feminist writers. When asked to
comment on the upsurge in feminist poets, he made the following remarks:
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"veeLLa kannA inTlO vunDE gayyaaLi tanAnni bharincha galam"
"panee paaTaa lEkunDA streela hakkulu anTunnaaru"
"madhuravaaNi (kanyASulkam) nijangaa madhuramE! madhuravaaNi feminisT
kaadu. ee gayyaaLuLLaa kaakunDaa, madhuravaaNilaa feminisTulu vunnaa
baagunDEdi"
Promptly came the following reply:
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aunu. mEm gayyaaLulamE!
nijamE - samdEham lEdu. mEm gayyaaLulamE
inTlO evari pOraaTam vaaLLadainappaTikanTE
andaram kalisinappaTi arupu marinta bheekaramE!
kaanee, kathakula tilakaa! mEm visigi pOyaam
saaraa musalamma kanTe maridee maalakshmi kanTE
Vietnam vimala kanTE marinta visigi poyaam!
meedaina pOrulO vinayamgaa mee venaka nilabaDitE
mEm veeravanitalam, sahanamUrtulam, SAntiswaroopulam.
aa pOru meekanTE ekkuvagaa maadani telisi
mee venuka kaaka sarasana nilabaDataamani anTE
aa poraaTamtO paaTu iLLallO mee meeda
mee abhijaatyam meeda mee ahamkaaram meeda
yuddham prakaTistE appuDu mEm gayyaaLulam!
mee choopullOni, maaTallOni, prEmallOni
asalardhaalanu aakalimpu chEsukOvaalanTE
mEm gayyaaLulam kaaka tappadu, kaaka tappadu
noorELLa kritam madhuravaaNi mruduvaina mandalimpulu
mee dalasari charmaalaku aananappuDu
mEm eetallAnTi maaTalatOnE poDustaam.
maa gunDela meeda koorchonnadi
purushankaarapu pedda puli ani telisaaka kooDaa
suti mettagaa prEma palukulu palukutaamaa?
mEm gayyaaLulamE kaadu, bhayamkara kaahalulam
aitE intavarakoo aa kaahalulanu
mee ishTaayishTaalanu baTTi meerE mrOginchaaru.
maa Sareeraala meeda mee sparSa mudrinchaalanE
mee sparSaa tarangaalanu meerE paTTukOvaalanE duraaSatOnE
innaaLLu mammalni kavitaa vastuvulugaa sweekarinchaaru.
ippuDu maalO uppongE bhaava tarangaalanu vinaalanE
kOrika meeku lEkunnaa, sparSakoo charyakoo badulunTundi.
idi kEvalam oka badulu, oka prati charya maatramE
nijangaa maa aakrOSamantaa arupainappuDu
maa pEgullO lungalu chuTTukunna aarti aavESamainappuDu
ee bhoomi kadilElA samasta prakRti pulakinchElaa
aakaaSamlO sagamantaa arichE aa arupulanu
pipeelakaadi mooga baadha vinagaligina
mee sunnita SravanEndriyaalu vinagaligitE -
(_rA vi SAstri_ gAriki - jaalitO)
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-Olga
8-11-92
Andhra Jyothi Daily
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