Seems like a whole generation doesn't know that there was an actual revolutionary freedom fighter called #Alluri Sitarama Raju, just a century ago! This image was released by British govt. after he was shot dead in 1924.
Do read up about him! One of Andhra's greatest! 🙏🙏🙏
The 1974 movie starring Krishna in the role of Raju was a super duper hit! It was the 100th movie for Krishna. They would air it on good old @DDNational during Independence or Republic Day.
So @AlwaysRamCharan wasn't the first. I haven't watched #RRRMoive but am told he too dons the role of Raju. Many have confused his character with that of Bhagawan Rama from Ramayana and are shouting "Jai Shri Ram" in videos. Hilarious! 😂
Some illiterate Dravidian idiot has gone ahead and analysed the movie as a medium of bringing in Hindutva into Tamil Nadu! 😂
Way before Krishna, the big man of Telugu cinema, NTR himself acted the role of Raju in a 1955 movie. It flopped. Krishna's movie did far better, in comparison. Krishna also acted brilliant!
When NTR got the Tank Bund built to connect the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad across the Hussain Sagar lake, he installed the statues of all the iconic Telugus on one side of the road. Among those is a beautiful life-size statue of Alluri Sitarama Raju.
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It is a real pity that our history textbooks don't mention or talk about the lives and sacrifices of all these great revolutionaries!
The current education system is begging for change! Someone like Raju should have been a popular name across Indian schools!
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Bangalore was a planned city keeping a thousand lakes in and around. By the 1960s, only 280 of those remained. Today we don't have even 80 of them. What happened to the rest? Land sharks with their illegal encroachments, backed by corrupt builders and governments!
Now rain waters are reclaiming what is their original land!
Those who are living on such land must drown and die! Nature is merciless!
Did you know Majestic bus stand was once a lake? Dharmambudi Kere!
In rural Bangalore they prayed to 'Kere Devaru', or god of lakes!
Birth centenary of my beloved Guru Garu, Pouranika Sarvabhouma, Pravachana Chakravarthy, Veda Brahmasri Malladi Chandrashekhara Sastry Garu!
Truly, once in a century does someone of his eminence walk this earth!
Chirasmaraneeya!
न भूतो न भविष्यति!
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One of the greatest achievements in my life was to get his appreciation. Something impossible to get! He was not an easy person to please! Brutal in his opinion and candid in his words, he called a spade a spade!
His and Amma Garu’s warmth and love is a lifetime blessing!
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An old thread when he passed away , three years ago.
4th of May is the birth anniversary of the great Carnatic Vaggeyakara , Saint and an unparalleled Rama Bhaktha Sadguru Tyagaraja Swami (1767 -1847) on the english calendar!
Img of his Samadhi Mandiram at Thiruvaiyaru just now.
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With my dear friends and wonderful musicians, the great Malladi Brothers at Thiruvaiyaru.
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A traditional Utsava Sampradaya Keerthana by Vid @AbhismRti for this beautiful evening. Offered at the annual Aradhana in Thiruvaiyaru.
It is said that Tyagaraja Swamy was inspired by the procession of Vaduvoor Ramar and composed this!
Countless stories of courage in every corner! A thousand sacrifices! No colour, caste, creed, age...all of them were Aasthikas. Poets, dancers, scholars, writers, Jeeyar Swamys, commonfolk...All diehard devotees of Sri Ranganathaswamy.
In the 1940s, Andhra was caught in being highly inspired by Bengali literature. Telugu writers and literary figures tried to emulate similar content in their works.
Short thread!
@_RamanaB_
Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay's famous novel 'Devdas' was made into an opera in 1940. It had over two dozen songs. This particular song was composed by the great Balantrapu Rajanikantha Rao Garu. However it never made it into the final opera but became extremely popular on radio.
It was sung by another stalwart Carnatic classical musician Sri Voleti Venkateswarlu. It became a hit and later Rao regretted not including it in the opera.
Decades later the same song was taught by veteran Vidwan Sri Malladi Suribabu Garu to our favourite @_RamanaB_. 🤩🙏🏼