“Triveni”: Welcome to Hyderabad

“TRIVENI”:
WELCOME TO HYDERABAD

THE RENOWNED JOURNAL of culture, Triveni, is coming to Hyderabad from Machilipatnam. It has a long history and also many vicissitudes, ups and downs and disappointments and triumphs. No periodical, committed to culture, could escape them, at any rate in India. No poor and ward country could sustain, for long, any journal of culture, unless it is a limb of a prosperous publishing establishment. But Triveni followed a lonely path and consequently suffered from many troubles and handicaps. Still it survived all these decades and the elite of the intelligentia always look forward to read it.

This has been entirely due to the high idealism and great sacrifice of its Founder, late Sri Kolavennu Ramakotiswara Rau. He was a freedom fighter of a rare order. He ardently strove for political independence of India by participating in the freedom struggle and going to jail. His concept of freedom did not stop with mere political independence. In its connotation and wide sweep, it took in cultural free­dom as well. He felt that without a good level of culture and cultural freedom, political inde­pendence alone will not improve the conditions of the Indian people. Therefore, he strove, with equal ardour and emphasis, for cultural ad­vancement of the Indian people. So he started the journal Triveni for spreading the message of culture. In the process of sustaining it, the Founder-Editor Ramakotiswara Rau never hesitated to make any sacrifice, his health as well as his wealth inclusive.

Still, by the end of his great life, he found the continuing of Triveni an unbearable task. When he was in desperation Sri Bhava­raju Narasimha Rao rushed to the rescue about four decades ago. Sri Bhavaraju took it to Ma­chilipatnam where he lived. Through thick and thin he kept up the journal and also its high standard.

            Triveni is a cultural magazine. It depicts world culture as a whole and Indian culture with greater emphasis. It is a repository of ideas and developing human thought. Ideas are the fountain source of all human action and endeavour. Literature and arts are only expres­sions of such ideas and thoughts. So much so, Triveni is a confluence of cultures of all areas and societies, justifying its name fully.

The continuance of such a journal is es­sential. It is particularly needed in the present context of steep fall of moral, ethical and cul­tural values in India. In the atmosphere of callousness towards civilized behaviour that is rampant in the higher echelons of Indian society, Triveni can play the role of a torch-bearer of decency and higher values in life. Such a journal, therefore, would be very welcome any­where.

Machilipatnam has been and continues to be an enlightened centre of Andhra culture. Triveni during its long sojourn in that town has interacted with that atmosphere in a significant manner.

To place Triveni on a firmer and soun­der footing, a charitable trust–Triveni Foundation has been created in its name in Hyderabad. It is therefore expected that- “Triveni’s future would be assured in Hyderabad.

Now it has come to Hyderabad, a city of composite culture, composite of all elements of Indian life. It is a miniature India. There is brisk cultural life in the city which is ever widening. Added to this, Hyderabad, with its many universities and research institutes, has a high level of intellectual life. Such an atmosphere would be highly conducive to the functioning of Triveni.

So every lover of culture in the city heartily welcomes Triveni to Hydera­bad.