Re: On plagiarism and source for plots
Bapa Rao (brao@tis.com)
Mon, 15 Dec 1997 12:36:16 -0800 (PST)
* I think that "Yandamoori's works" is a very interesting topic to talk
* about. It is fair to say that he has become the shaper of the Telugu
* novel's direction since the late '70s starting with his tulasidaLam. No
* matter what anybody says about the quality of work that followed, his
* influence has been so sweeping that all prominent writters of that time
* either retired or started imitating him. I believe that that yamDamUri
* yugam is still going. While I work on my year-end deliverables, I would
* very much like to hear the view of our learned colleagues on telusa.
I am the least-qualified person to speak / write on yandamoori, but
if the emergence of any one strong writer causes other prominent writers
to "retire or start imitating him" then it says something disturbing
about the state of our literary culture. So I hope the statement was
an exaggeration. To take two examples at random, are "vasundhara" and
viswanatha reddy imitators of Yandamoori then?
My personal views.
Bapa Rao