> My my! A bunch of my good friends who have a decent reputation as
> writers, still vividly remember Sri Sri and the 'agitation' against
> the World Telugu Conference. They have the foggiest idea about Sri
> Potukuci Sambasiva Rao and his WTC saaradhyaM.
>
> BTW, is this the same Sambasiva Rao, who wrote tons and tons of
> 'short stories' on the same theme, - boy meets the girl,...
> they say yes and dads say no ...tra laa laa..tra laa laa... and they
> all meet for the group photo in the end?-
>
After reading turumeLLa's post, I searched through the foot-notes
of the SreeSree volumes (an excellent source for getting thumbnail
sketches of many contemporary and bygone literary personalities) for
references to pOtukooci saambaSiva raavu. I could foind only one (if
there were other references to him, I may have missed them). He was described
by the editor as a writer of short stories and novels, and editor of
'viSwa saahiti' (Viswa Saahiti also figures in the address given by
turumeLLa).
Any way, that foot-note appeared in SreeSree's review of the
dramas and plays at the aandhra naaTaka parishat competetions in 1955.
pOtukooci's play 'donga' was one of the entries. SreeSree mentioned a few
plays (donga was not one of them) as being written well, and says that
the rest of them (this would include donga by default) as being
substandard.
Just thought that I would share this information.
Regards. --- Chowdary Jampala