I agree wholeheartedly!! Let me clarify my gripe: In this society, there is
lot of emphasis placed on good writing. There are good books that talk about
the art of writing. I am not aware of a single book on this subject in Telugu.
Do you remember those telugu essay competitions? I won several prizes, not
because of my writing abilities, but for the points I was making in those
essays. But, that is not what essay writing is all about. It is about art of
writing. Based on the education I received, I could only conclude that nobody
knew it as an art form that should be emphasized. Whatever I learnt about
writing, I learnt under the gentle tutelage of my PhD advisor.
> These works suffer from concious ommissions and/or commisions,
> hyperbole(s), prejudice, intent to pursuade the reader to believe in what
> is not true or complete. They suffer from inconsistency (sometimes) and
> incompleteness (often). And, this incompleteness is not stemmed of ignorance
> but more from concious intention to ignore or insult, denigrate or downplay.
That may be dishonest writing, but still it can be good writing. Can a piece
of prose be good, yet be prejudiced? Yes, I believe it is possible.
> attention to no end was a book on evolution (biological, not social) by
> Palana's grandfather.
I really would like to see this book. May be one day, I will catch palana for
this book.
> Onto Rama's criticism (and Veluri's vattasu):
>
> > > karuNaSree he is really a great poet.
> >
> > Yes, he is a great poet. So is, vaadrEvu china veera bhadruDu.
>
> I think this is not called for, unless "vaadrevu china veera bhadrudu" is
> an excellent poet/writer that I don't know; if so, I apologize for my
> ignorance, and ignore the rest of the paragraph. In your fervor to defend
Yes, vaadrevu china veera bhadrudu is a good poet. At times, he is a great
poet too. What Mr.Potukuchi said was karunaSree, who was a great poet, did not
receive the proper propaganda. I think same can be said of Bhadrudu, whom I
consider a great poet, did not receive proper propaganda. The degrees of
greatness vary -- if I am permitted to quote my favorite writer ...
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
I have seen the eternal footman hold my coat and snicker,
In short, I was afraid.
> We don't need to look down upon or put down Jandhyala for praising Sri Sri.
Sure, I wasn't putting down Jandhyala. My statement was meant to show how much
of a non-sequitur the statement about Jandhyala was. [ If I were he, I would
have prefaced that comment with "apropos nothing" :-)] Mine was a facetious
remark showing the shallowness of an isolated comment that characterized the
highly condescending, disjoint, ill-structured, logically deficient,
incoherent, unilluminating, uninteresting, and still-born argument that
Mr. Potukuchi was presenting.
[Just contrast that argument to what Dr. Pillalamarri was making. I can see
his point and often it makes me do soul-searching and even change my
positions. An argument with such a person is a discussion where I come back
feeling enriched. My point: I have no qualms about somebody disagreeing with
me. ]
> KV.
--rama