Tag Archives: Personalities

Personalities: P.Susheela

November 16, 2015UncategorizedAndhra, Music, Personalities, Telugu, TollywoodN.R.I.pathi

In honour of her completing 80 wonderful years last week, our next great Andhra Personality this week is none other than the Nightingale of the South, Smt. P.Susheela.

A singer and philanthropist who dominated playback singing in the …

Personalities: Ganapati Deva

October 11, 2015UncategorizedAndhra, History, Personalities, Telangana, TeluguN.R.I.pathi

With “Rudhramadevi” Released, an interest in the great Kakatiya Samrajyam of the Telugus has been rekindled in large sections of the people. As the rulers of a united kingdom of Telangana, Rayalaseema, and Kosta (Coastal Andhra), they along with …

Personalities: Mallinatha

June 18, 2015UncategorizedAndhra, High Culture, Literature, Personalities, Sanskrit, Telangana, TeluguN.R.I.pathi

One of the greatest All-India Andhra Litterateurs is from the new state of Telangana. A man whose name is so synonymous with scholarship and literary criticism he has become a veritable figure of speech, Mallinatha is one of our …

Personalities: Annamacharya

May 21, 2015UncategorizedAndhra, Carnatic, Dharma, High Culture, India, Music, Personalities, TeluguN.R.I.pathi

Popularly known all over undivided Andhra as “Annamayya”, Annamacharya is undoubtedly one of our leading lights not only in the realm of music, for which he is best known, but in the realm of Dharma. Considered the Andhra Pada …

Personalities: Yamini Krishnamurti

January 21, 2015UncategorizedAndhra, Dance, High Culture, India, Personalities, TeluguN.R.I.pathi

One of the great artistic luminaries of Andhra Dance is Yamini Krishnamurti.

Skilled in both Kuchipudi and Bharatanatyam, she is most famous for her achievements in the latter. Indeed, some have even remarked that “Yamini was not …

Personalities: The Musunuri Nayaks

January 8, 2015UncategorizedAndhra, Dharma, Elite, History, Personalities, TeluguN.R.I.pathi

Two of the greatest patriots that the Telugus produced were scions of the Musunuri family: Prola and Krishna Nayak. While there is a popular but utterly inaccurate view that there were no popular revolutions in Medieval India, the Musunuri …

Personalities: Thyagaraja

December 17, 2014UncategorizedAndhra, Carnatic, High Culture, India, Music, Personalities, Teluguadmin

“Greatest Classical Composer”, “Indefatigable Interpreter of the Past”, “Incarnation of Valmiki”. These are just some of the many praises and titles attached to Sri Thyagaraja.

Thyagaraja or Thyagayya (as he is known to us Telugus), is one of the …

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