Dear Sir: Are you not one? (only fun intended).(I am answering in the same
mood).
> Here is one in telugu that has acquired a good bit of padding(pun not
> intended) over the years!
>
> the last line from a poem she bought from a poet by name nRsiMha kavi(I may
> be off here!) for four thousand varahaas(I wish such mOhanaaMgees are
> around us now a days!).
It would have provided lot of employment for many lawyers to prepare 'sale
agreements', 'copy rights', file 'patents'. In addition, there would have
been lot of drama regarding selling the rest of the three lines. Or there
would have been 'buy one, get one free' type of concessions.To place orders
call toll free: (1-800-POETREE) type of publicity. Needless to talk about
the early reservations, brokers, middlemen for the poems/lines, secondary
sellings, 'politics' not to get it sold to someone whom some other one does
not like, etc.
> After all, in the first place, it was tax payers' money that mOhanaaMgi
> lavished for one single poem!
mAsthAru! Aren't we all making use of our employer's provided e.mail
facility (as well as time) for debating all this on TELUSA. (I guess we
better not throw stones at people in glass doors, while we live there too.
No sarcasm intended).
> Here it is, as I remember(I might have goofed, a word or two!)it:
>
> tE. gee. ottukoni vaccu kaTi kucO dvRtti cooci
> taruNi tanu madhya mecaTikO talagi pOye
> uMDenEniyu kanabaDa kuMDe? ahaha!
> uddhatula madhya pEdala kuMDataramE?
> Home work: What is the alaMkaaraM (figure of speech) in the poem?
ardhAntaranyAsamu.
Afterall, 'prapanca moka ullekhyamu; jeevana moka ardhAntaranyAsamu.'
> I know you have a big heart and do not want to be cheap and get the
> answer freely from your chandO guroos on the net. Do you?
guruvani ceppaga lEdidi
gurutuga ceppanga nEla guruvani yokanin
guri goni yunDeDu SishyuDe
guruvagu konnaLLa pidapa ghanata vahimpan
> Hoping to hear from a lot of TELUSAers and SCITers!!
> But, promise that you would send a tax deductible
> donation of $10.00 (Ten dollars only) to:
> India Literacy Project
> P. O. Box 2137, Hines, IL 60141-2137
Yo can count on me.
With regards,
Prabhakar Vissavajjhala