Re: Weekend Thoughts! - Death of a monther Tongue -Reply

Mohan Parigi (parigim@STATE.MI.US)
Thu, 23 May 1996 12:07:59 -0400

Ramakrishna S. Pillalamarri wrote:

>pAlagummi padmarAju won an award (was it first
>place? vElUri?) in an international competition,
>for his story "gAli vAna". But how many of us do
>even know about it?

It was in 1956. A short story contest organized by
NewYork Herald Tribune. He got second prize for
"gaali vaana".

madan mohan