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Make Kanyasulkam popular among youth
An introductory note or forward by any eminent writer should be written for ‘Kanyasulkam’ to make the GenNext understand the social reality and practices of those times, said Rajeswari Kalyanam, Features Senior Editor of The Hans India, here on Sunday.
Visakhapatnam: An introductory note or forward by any eminent writer should be written for ‘Kanyasulkam’ to make the GenNext understand the social reality and practices of those times, said Rajeswari Kalyanam, Features Senior Editor of The Hans India, here on Sunday.
Taking part as a distinguished guest, Rajeswari delivered a lecture on the second day of a three-day national festival being organised by the Department of Language and Culture in collaboration with The Mosaic, a Telugu literary organisation, to mark the 125th anniversary of ‘Kanyasulkam’ by Mahakavi Gurajada Appa Rao, at the AU Platinum Jubilee Guest House in Visakhapatnam on Sunday.
“To make Kanyasulkam popular among the present generation, it should be reworked without losing its essence to suit for video-on demand formats. Besides the language could be further simplified,” Rajeswari opined.
The special issue on Gurajada Appa Rao brought out by The Hans India was unveiled on the occasion in the presence of writers, literary critics and poets.
Drawing parallels between 19th century Bengali dramatist Dinabandhu Mitra and Gurajada Appa Rao’s works, Bengali writer Angshuman Kar termed the Mahakavi as a liberal humanist.
He said the amalgamation of social comedy, satirical take on systemic flaws and social realism made the literary works of Gurajada the master pieces, which are relevant even today after a century. In the view of hyper-nationalism taking front stage in the country, Vijay Chandra recalled Gurajada’s best lyric ‘Desamante matti kaadoy, desamante manushuloy’ meaning, a country is not made of land, a country is made of its people.
“Even after 70 years of Independence, people are still after religion and it has grown immensely. This proves the successive governments have failed to provide basic amenities to the people,” he said.
