With a view to draw youth towards Indian classics, an NRI has come up with a mobile application that allows users to listen to the text. As of now, one can listen to Maha Bhagavatham by downloading the app and they can also learn the context and meaning of the text.
Putcha Mallikarjuna Venkata Subrahmanyam, a retired engineer who was associated with the NASA, came up with the idea of developing the app for which he mobilised local experts to prepare digital platform for 324 select poems of the total 7,012 poems. Before officially launching the platform, Mr. Mallik, as he is commonly known, visited the Pothana grave in Bammera village of Palakurthy mandal here on Saturday. “We have a great spiritual legacy and I am appalled by the declining patronage to it. The younger generations need to know their legacy which is why the application is developed,” he told The Hindu .
The soon-to-be launched website http://bhagavatamanimutyalu. org/IBamTeam.html will provide a list of poems, pratipatardham , tatparyam and audio in sections titled iBAL, iBAP, iBAPP, iBAT and iBAA.
Mr. Mallik said he was inspired by the discourses of noted spiritualist Chaganti Koteswar Rao who insisted that mere rendering or listening to poems from the Indian classics itself offered great solace to people. “We considered several parameters before selecting each poem, its utility value such as the moral it teaches and so on,” he explained.
He is also planning to get the website and the mobile app launched by Mr. Koteswar Rao at Tirupati soon. Mr. Mallik opined that it would be a great beginning as all the Telugu classics and spiritual books could be brought onto this digital platform thus protecting, preserving and propagating them.
