Re: nava navalaa(DE) ....
Nasy Sankagiri (narayans@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu)
Tue, 22 Jul 1997 13:07:45 -0400 (EDT)
'allo llo llO,
bahu kAla darshanam!
I am happy to make official reappearance in telusA with this message.
Let me confess that, all this while, I had been following the goings on
via the archives; only now have I, being computerally challenged, been
able to figure out the intricate pleasures of remote login.
Apart from the matter of compter logistics, this reappearance says two
things:
1) my literary tastes are in line with those of my friends who already
wrote under this heading, and
2) the popularity of 'popular' arts (that's why they are called popular,
aren't they?) I mean, a whisper of YSRani's name awakens me where I sleep
through shouts and screams on language, color, culture...(I am dreamily
aware of saying something on color!)
Coming to the main point,
man, can she write! My mother was a great fan, and had all of YSR's
novels and story collections of seventies and early eighties. I consider
mInA to be her best. kIrti kirITAlu comes a close second. some more good
ones are I dESam mAkEmiccindi, jIvana tarangAlu, pArthu.
By mid eighties, the strain of competing with more sensationalist writers
began to show in her works. When I discovered the telugu section in
U.Penn library, I first checked for her books, but they only had a couple
of new ones.
To Rama and Chowdary gAralu (gArelu kAdu),
I wish I could offer the books, but unfortunately, they are under the
safe custody of my mother in Vijayawada. Oh, BTW, mom, thanks for
introducing me to YSR.
Regards
Nasy "I'll choose mInA over tulasI daLAm any day" Sankagiri
PS: I was really attracted by this increasing trend of fancy middle names
- thought I'd join in too.