Re: nalupu "sirivennela"

Hari K Tadepalli (Hari_K_Tadepalli@ccm.co.intel.com)
Fri, 18 Jul 97 09:11:00 PDT


     
     
     I am anxiously waiting for the reply I much sought over last couple of 
     days. Meanwhile, I am also reminded of a certain usage of the 
     politically invioloable color in raavi saastri's famous & beautiful 
     short story #mAmiDi cheTTu# - this being the first thing that always 
     comes to my mind whenever I have to think or speak about Telugu short 
     story. If memory serves me right, the chief character therein - either 
     Mr.Neelamani or his daughter Ms.Neelamani was described as either  
     #chitaginza black# or a #tumma moddu# black. I never rethought about 
     it till today. Also, as the story goes, Mr.Neelamani is not a 
     venerable character. Is his dark complexion purely incidental or meant 
     to be an author's artifice for accentuating Mr.Neelamani's "dark" 
     character ?
     
     Will the experts of chromatic analysis in Telugu literature comment on 
     the raavi saastri's intentions and nonintentions in applying a dark 
     coating to Mr.Neelamani ?
     
     
     T. Hari Krishna