‘Nadi’, a monthly magazine, and Maha Vaisakhi Sanskritika Mandali jointly honoured Deputy Speaker Mandali Buddha Prasad with Sahiti Mitra award at a programme organised here on Sunday.
Nadi magazine, being published by AgriGold group, conducted vachana kavyam , literary competitions, recently. Magazine management presented Svargeeya Avva Vankata Appa Rao Saraswatha Puraskaram-2014 to Akondi Viswanatham who penned Mutyalasala . The organisers felicitated the winner and 13 other writers also. Andhra Pradesh High Court judge B. Chandra Kumar released the Mutyalasaala .
Addressing the gathering, Mr. Chandra Kumar stressed on the need to protect Telugu language. The government should make written Telugu must in examination conducted by it. The candidates should answer at least a few questions in Telugu. It would compel the students to learn Telugu, he opined.
Potti Sriramulu Telugu University former Vice Chancellor N. Gopi said that the government issued GO 152. But, hardly the GO was being implemented in the schools. Oonly 5 percent of the schools were going abroad, but the government was emphasizing on English medium education. The government should take a cue from countries like Germany and China where English was not medium of education but give a tough competition to US, he said.
Madabhushi Sridhar said that learning other languages should not be a taboo. “Language grows only if it adopts words from other languages. Telugu is stated to one of the dying languages. But, it can be protected if proper measures were taken,” he said.
The Deputy Speaker said that these kind of competitions help in reviving ‘Vachana Kavyam’. “‘Mutyalasala’ was an excellent book written in Vachana Kavyam style,” he said.
MLC Ilapuram Venkaiah, Mayor Koneru Sridhar, AgriGold group Chairman VR Rao Avvas, Krishna University Vice Chancellor V. Venkaiah, Doordarshan Assistant Director N.V. Hanumantha Rao, AIR Station Director Munjuluri Krishna Kumari and Maha Vaisakhi Sanskrithika Mandali secretary Vedantham Rajagopala Chakravarthi spoke.
