A one lettered poem

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> In our sahithi samuham monthly meetings we had a single letter sloka
> from  Sisupala Vadha by Nagha in sanskrit. Several of us are 
> interested in single letter peoems in telugu. Please let me knwo the 
> source or some from your collections!
> - Srinivasa Rao K.

Please check the two "standard" works on _chaaTuvulu_ in Telugu: _chaaTu
padya ratnaakaramu_ and _chaaTupadya maNimanjari_ by Veturi Prabhakara 
sastry and Deepaala Picchayya sastry respectively. They provide you some 
such poems. Also pingaLi soorana's _kaLaapoorNOdayam_; esp. the concluding
parts may be a good source. I amn't very sure about soorana's work, as its 
long time since I read it. A good source for bibliography on 
"chaaTu kawitwam" is a thesis, that I came across in a German (!) library 
few years ago, by G. Lalita* (telugu chaaTu kawitwam, Quality Publishers, 
Vijayawada, 1981).

Here is one one-lettered-poem, attributed to Tenali Ramakrishna:

naanineenaanu neenunu naaninaanu
naana nEnunu ninnooni nunna nannu
nenna nunnanu ninnenna nunna naana
ninna nEnanna nunna nannenu nanni

[pratipadaartham solicited!]

Regards,		--Sreenivas

*. Is this G. Lalita the same person, who translated some of Sahitya
   Acedemy's publications in to Telugu?

P.S. A personal query: I am interested in recorded interviews/programmes
     (audio/video) with well-known literary personalities on exchange basis.
     If you have any such; esp. with SreeSree, ko.ku, kaa.raa, 
     raa.vi.Saastry and dEvulapalli, please send a mail to: 
	sreeni@ktp.uni-paderborn.de

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