The epic saga Telangana

The epic saga Telangana
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Telangana is the land of greatest empires, people’s movements both armed and unarmed, greatest revolts from sufferings in the name of feudalism, imperialism and anarchism. What did a lay man benefit from separate state? 

Telangana is the land of greatest empires, people’s movements both armed and unarmed, greatest revolts from sufferings in the name of feudalism, imperialism and anarchism. What did a lay man benefit from separate state?

The clay men of Telangana. They only want their land. They love their soil and want to live to till they soil, sow grains and live in its yield. This is the essence of Telangana. This is how the poetry book was born. The poet K B Sandhya Viplove, Assistant Civil Surgeon IMS, wants to spread the essence of Telangana to entire world with the help of her poetry.

The book begins with ‘The Sorrow of my Soil’, (from total of 60 poems, running into hundred pages). This poem is not just about a young student who committed suicide at the Osmania University campus but about more than ‘twelve hundred youth who committed suicide during 2010-14 in the tail ender agitation for a separate state hood.

Telangana, the 29th state of India that was formed in 2014, is a reminder to all those mothers ‘whose womb keeps weeping in remembrance of their loved ones’, says Subodh Sarkar, a Bengali Poet.

In the poems the writer pictures the blue canvas with the panorama of Telangana. ‘It’s frontier echoes with the coercion slavery stories, shattered dreams of proletariats, musicals of sacred rituals with Cassia flower blossoms, melody from the burial grounds reminding ancient sacrifices, dreams of lean muscles ignored by democratic system, a peoples movement which was greater than French revolution and the defining moment 40 million Telanganites own’, said the poet.

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