Naxalites in response plotted an assassination attempt on the then Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh – Chandrababu Naidu. They planted nine landmines, to kill the most powerful man in the state. The location too was iconic – near Tirupathi the abode of the supposed home deity to the Telugu people, Lord Balaji.

In 2009, Y.S.R. was re-elected a second time. But on September 2nd, the helicopter that he took off in Hyderabad, crashed in the Nallamalla forests of Andhra – the very place that was the hiding place for Maoists and ‘suspected’ Maoists.

According to the All India Survey on Higher Education, a 2015–16 report published by the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, the total number of enrolments at the PhD level in the discipline of Telugu language and literature is 167 out of the nearly 7,000 enrolments in all the Indian languages (a mere 2 per

The idea of purity also gets ‘validation’ from the argument that the version of the Telugu spoken in Telangana and Rayalaseema borrow words liberally from Urdu and Tamil/Kannada, respectively, owing to historical and geographical reasons.

‘At that point, I saw a crowd outside a hair salon, talking about Hero Pawan Kalyan who had just arrived. I obviously wanted to see him, so I joined the crowd. Pawan Kalyan took the time to talk to almost all of us who were there. Imagine that. He spoke to all of us. When he saw me, he placed his hand on my shoulder and asked me my name. When I

At some point, when he wasn’t served coffee, Chiranjeevi lost his temper at a local party worker; the worker yelled back at him.

Garimella Satyanarayana injected ideology into folk songs without literary baggage, which sat easier on tongues.

another type of fan has been replaced by an audience member who might be more upset by bad popcorn than a bad film.

The Telugu poet Aarudra is supposed to have said, ‘The oyster doesn’t make the pearls / with the jeweller in mind. The poet doesn’t make poems / with the reader in mind.’