> The AIR VANI was uniqe. Are they still publishing this?
> Also, this VANI used to publish very high quality black and white
> photographs of artists, singers, and writers. I still remeber the young
> handsome face of Devulapalli with a long hair (not really long - you know
vaaNi is still published to the best of my knowledge. But, I have n't read in
the past 6 years. I used to see this regularly on news stands in VZA and GNT
bus stations.
Oh yes, I know those dEvulapalli photos with "long hair". indraganTi
hanumaCCaastri in his column "gautamee gaathalu" (published in
_aandhrajyOti_ weekly, in 1979/1980.) used to often write about
"bhaavakavitaa yugam" in too.gO.ji; "silku laalcheelu vEsukOni, girajaala
juTlatO .....raajamanDri, kaakinaaDallO challani kobbari, taaTaaku pandiLLa
neeDallO peLLi saMbaraallaagaa rOjula tarabaDi .......". Sometime ago I
wanted to send good photos of "young" dEvulapalli, SreeSree (No! aarudra
looks better now in that beard :-))), baapiraaju and a few others for _Andhra
Pradesh Home Page_ (Its a very well made WWW page!, by Sujata Neelam and
Sreenivas Savaram.) but did n't have any off-hand. I wish I saved all those
that I have come across over years. Now, you see only a standard photo of
dEvulapalli in Red Shawl.
Coming back to the literary articles in _vaaNi_, I present one here, written
by raayaprOlu on basavaraaju. If any of you have old _vaaNi_ issues back home
(aTaka paina, bhOshaaNaallOnu, ...), I am interested in them.
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naa kavi mitruDu basavaraaju appaaraavu
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basavaraaju appaaraavukoo naakoo toli sahacharyam madraas^lO kudirindi.
tiruvaNikkELilO #Kellet High School# ku edurugaa manchi mEDa vunDEdi. andulO
#Law College# lO, #Presidency College# lO chaduvutunna
vidyaarthulu-paDuchuvaaru aaruguru addeku unDEvaaru. nEnu vidyaarthini
kaakapOyinaa kalupukunnaaru.
appaaraavu - kuruganTivaaru - tiruvaNikkELilOnE unDE vaaru. nEnappuDu
_tRNakankaNa_ rachanalO unnaanu. saayantram samudram oDDuna vraasina padyaalu
vinipistoo vunDEvaaDini.
maitri
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_tRNakankaNam_ acchayi bayaTiku vacchindi. appaaraavuku kooDaa oka kaapee
iyyaDaaniki tecchaanu. aa saayantraaniki aayana appaTiki mundE _tRNakankaNam_
koni, chadivi chEtapaTTukoni maa basaku vacchaaDu.
aanaaDu appaaraavu mukhaMlO konta viSEsham chaayalu dErutoo kanipinchindi.
aanaaDu samudram oDDuna andulO geetalu peTTukonna padyaalannee aayanE
chadivaaDu.
marunaaDu sooTigaa naa gadiki vacchaaDu. EvO konni sangatulu vellaDinchaaDu.
aa dhOraNilO manasu vicchi swaCChandaMgaa prasarnchE vaalakam kanapaDDadi.
appaTi nunDi maa parichayam snEhamgaa chiguruvOsi, maitrigaa kommalu
saagindi.
(Two Paragraphs deleted.)
kanyaaSulkam
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intalO gurajaaDavaari kanyaaSulkam maa viDidiki vacchindi. vasantavaaDa
sOdarulu maatOnE unDEvaaru. vaaridi viSaakhapaTTaNam. vastoo vastoo appuDE
prakaTitamaina dwiteeya mudraNam kaapee tecchaaru. andaramoo chadivaamu.
andarilOnoo EdO anta@hsphuritam kaligindi. adhikaadhikamgaa maa appaaraavulO
uddhRtamaina udbOdham kanabaDDadi. renDu mooDu saarlu kanyaaSulka paatralanu
gurinchi naatO charchaku digaaDu. baagaa j~naapakamunnadi. gireeSam pravRtti
bhaavaalu lOkamlO vunnavi. vaanini lOkasiddhamaina bhaashalOsugamaghaTitam
chEyaDamE kaavyamani vaadinchaaDu. daanitO aayanalO, aayana rachanalO oka
maarpu teerpu kanabaDindi. "kaavyadEvata nOTa kavita vinnaanE .." ani oka
geetam unDaale. adi aa praantaana vraasindE.
--raayaprOlu subaaraavu
[vaaNi, sampuTam 13, sanchika 4]
[#The above mentioned song was one of many used by gooDavalli raamabrahmam in
his film. This particular song was popularized by saaloori raajESwararaavu
and raavu baalasaraswati in _illaalu_ 1940.#)
Regards,
Sreenivas
P.S. For a .ps file, pl. send me a mail @ <sreeni@ktpsp1.uni-paderborn.de>