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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Auspicious morning of Pushya Bahula Panchami on the traditional Hindu calendar. Sadguru Tyagaraja Swamy attained Siddhi in 1847 on this day. Every year, thousands of musicians and devotees come to Thiruvaiyaru to offer their tributes at his Samadhi Mandiram.
Wrestler, Trader, Ayurvedacharya, Bone-setter, staunch Vaishnava, Mysore Samsthana Raja Vaidya and finally a legendary brand in his own lifetime!
The iconic “Ustad” Kayangadi Papanna!
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Wondering if i should put a thread! 🙆🏻♂️🤔
Papanna’s ancestors migrated from Andhra to the Mysore Kingdom about four generations before him. They belonged to the Telugu Balija community. Many members of that community migrated to the Karnataka region including the saint Kaiwaram Amara Nareyana Swamy.
For that we have to go to the great Maratha rulers of Thanjavur region. Especially the versatile King Sahaji (1684-1710). He was not only a benevolent ruler but a man of arts. He was well-versed in literature and composed musical operas in Telugu, Marathi and Sanskrit.
Sahaji was a great patron of artistes, scholars and Pundits. In 1693, he donated a village Tiruvisanallur to 46 families of learned Pundits. The village was renamed Sahajirajapuram. Great scholars of Sanskrit, Veda, Shastra and other allied traditional knowledges lived there.