The chairman of Telugu Official Language Council, Devulapally Prabhakar Rao has said that he would extend his support to install the statue of well-known Telugu poet, writer and freedom fighter Dasarathi Krishnamacharya in the town and also make his cell at the erstwhile district prison atop the Indur Fort, a national monument.
Attending the 91st Jayanthi celebration of Dasarathi and also the release of Sahithya Prasoona, a literary magazine which carried the special issue on the late poet, here on Friday he described him as a towering personality in the Telugu literary field. Dasarathi was imprisoned at the Nizam jail here at Quilla Indur for his courageous struggle against the autocratic and tyrannical rule of the Nizam, he said.
After inaugurating the Dasarathi Memorial Library, the chief guest former Member of Parliament M. Narayana Reddy said that books at this library will be given to those who would do research on Dasarathi literature. Recalling the historic Telangana struggle, he said Dasarathi had written his famous lines “Naa Telangana Koti Rathanala Veena” with a piece of charcoal on the four walls of his cell and for which he was severely beaten up by the then Nizam police.
Writers Naleswaram Shankar Apkari Surya Prakash, magazine editor Meka Ramaswami, Raghunathalayam committee chairman Mukka Devender Gupta also spoke.
