This is not review of a book. When I wanted to publish my “Russian Geetalu’ which translated mainly the poems of Gamzatov and Pushkin of Russia I stumbled upon this anthology. The author belonged to araku of Visakha district. He was born to late Errayyama and Gurumurthi Naidu. He had his school education in Jayapuram in Orissa and college education in Pithapuram Raja college in kakinada. He worked in Royal Air force(1944-47), Insurance Inspector (1948-50), and in postal dept. (1951-84).
A prolific writer. His books which saw the light earlier were : Chatushpadham (1970), Hima vani(1987) .
He was a good friend of poets such as Puripanda, Arudra, Jnanada kavi, Chaganti Somayajulu, Somasundar etc.
Rationalism, humanism and equality were his themes.
His anthology consisted of translations of poems of the famous ones such as Tikhonov, Pasternak, Mayakovsky, Gamzatov and some of his original
poems.
Kudos to Basavaraju who broght Russsian literary riches to Telugu land.
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