I myself have looked at but half-a-dozen of such homepages. Many a time
I thought that there ought to be a place to go to, for routine information,
such as the nemaes of the years, months, days (tithis), list of festivals,
passport/visa renewal information, current state and central govt officials
(this list would be updated daily), some of the information you would see
in a "pedda bAla Siksha" (which ought to undergo a major re-write, and a
drastic re-formatting). Some of this information was available in an FAQ
area connected with the Telugu Digest. Perhaps it still is.
Sanka Ramakrishna in the recent past, has created a rich homepage, with
lots of links to a variety of sources. In his own page, he has much of
sumatee satakam, and some other famous/popular poems. There may be many more
people who have labored thus, but somehow haven't been able to spread
the word.
I'll post the addresses of a half-a-dozen homepages. Once you look-up one,
it would be virtually imposiible to get out without visiting several other
homepages, with all the links provided therein. Perhaps very soon we'll
have a decent size list of addresses.
About sumatee Satakam, kumAree Satakam, vEmana Satakam, ... I have some
reservations, stronger for some than for others.
Many of these Satakas contain a few rather objectionable comparisons,
examples, such... Sometime recently I read a few verses of kumAree Satakam,
and thought that the sentiments expressed therein, if ever were appropriate,
are most certainly inappropriate now. So are some (very few) verses from the
other two mentioned. Like a present day stand-up comedian who spares no
ethnic group, some of these Satakas (perhaps as a result of whatever bad
experience the author had with one group or another) ridicule/put-down
a whole caste/race/trade/gender(mostly female). Of course a mjority of the
verses in vEmana/sumatee are not of this kind.
So, why stir-up a hornet's nest?
Ramakrishna