Another Landmark

In an age of ephemeral journalism, especially serious journalism devoted to the higher values of life, it is gratifying to record that Triveni has completed fifty years of service to the cause of cultural renaissance in India. The trials Sri Ramakotiswara Rau, the Founder-Editor, had to face and the obstacles he had to surmount during the greater part of this period, are those that come to all great souls who expend themselves for great causes. They are too well-known to need recapitulation in a brief notice like this one.

Triveni completed fifty years at the end of 1977. Great friends of Sri Ramakotiswara Rau celebrated the Golden Jubilee on March 5 last at Madras, the place of its birth. Later, on May 7, Dr. B. Gopala Reddy, released the Golden Jubilee Number at a function held in Machilipatnam. My fervent thanks go to all those who organized and took part in the above functions – particularly Sri K. Chandrasekharan and Dr. B. Gopala Reddy – and all those lovers of learning and culture, who, by their patronage, have made the journal what it is today.

But for the opportunity afforded to me by Sri Ramakotiswara Rau to associate myself with the work of Triveni, the privilege and good fortune of coming into such close and personal contact with so many intellectuals of our country and of serving the cause of nationalism and national integration would not have been mine. It shall be my earnest endeavour to serve the journal and its cause as long as I am privileged to do so.

I take this opportunity to express my grateful thanks to all those eminent men of letters and leaders of thought for their valuable contributions to this Golden Jubilee Number. I earnestly hope for their continued support in future too, so that Triveni may carry on its service in keeping with its traditions and standards.

Sri Ramakotiswara Rau is not physically with us today. His spirit, however, animates Triveni. May it continue to do so through the years to come.

–Bhavaraju Narasimha Rao
Editor