Readers Mail

READERS’ MAIL

Your editorial induces me to read it time and again.  When I heard that the magazine is facing financial crunch I thought my contribution will help to some extent.  This year also I convinced my friends and they came forward happily when I asked them to become subscribers.  All the English lecturers are getting an opportunity to enjoy reading the magazine.  Now-a-days academic deadwood is seen everywhere.
- Dr. E. Pullaiah, Hanamkonda

(The Editor and the Triveni Foundation are grateful for your special effort in promoting the cause of TRIVENI.  Ed)

“It is indeed an honour for a budding writer like me to be in the galaxy of eminent writers.  I am thankful to you for having boosted my morale.  Your article “A Wreath for Teachers” has inspired, guided and awakened the teachers to the responsibilities that lay before them. As a teacher, I have learnt the fundamentals of motivating students to newer levels of knowledge.  I send my best wishes for the grand success of the (Platinum Jubilee) function.”
-P. V. Laxmi Prasad, Karimnagar

“Your editorial ‘A Wreath for Teachers’ is a timely reminder both for teachers and the society also.  The perspective of education as a social service and a means to give life and meaning to the textbook are worth following suggestions.  In modern times the sense of dedication once seen among great teachers is lacking.  Yet, as you said, ‘Good teachers have become obsolete but not yet extinct’.  The changing trends of commercialised educational system, political interference and additional burdens are no mean causes for the present state of affairs.  Indiscriminate admission of students and unwieldy strength of classes pose a serious threat to the maintenance of discipline and standards. – RK Singh’s essay on ‘ New Indian English writing’ aptly shows the continuing colonial burden in the post colonial era.  Only diasporic writers are considered Indian writers and no attention is paid to native Indian writers.  Also, the question of status and qualifications gives a false aura to the foreign based Indian English writers.  Dr. Ravikumar’s story ‘The Cycle’ is a realistic portrait of bureaucratic apathy and callousness even in academic institutions.  I appreciate the variety and social relevance in the articles”
- G. Somaseshu, Nizamabad                       

“Bangalore has plenty of rains this year.  The weather is cool, the sky is cloudy, sunshine is rare.  Don’t know how long this rains interlude lasts… Water wars are on.  Whither India?   The linking of rivers will bring in new dimension and the remedy may be worse than the disease…There is no end in sight to our problems.  Good men are hedged by bad forces.  Hope lies in God’s grace!
-Dr. R. R. Menon, Bangalore

“Congratulations on the excellent production (of the Platinum Jubilee Special Number) which will remain a collector’s item!  Catering to the needs of the scholars and general readers, the journal exemplifies both the diversity and unity of modern India. The TRIPLE STREAM is all embracing, eventually signifying the symbolic merger with the infinite ocean of life. TRIVENI is indeed surging ahead towards centenary.”
-Prof. D. Ramakrishna, Warangal

“Hearty congratulations to you and the TRIVENI FOUNDATION on the exhilarating celebration of the Platinum Jubilee.”
-Abdul Rashid Bijapure, Dhule
(Maharashtra)

“This particular issue (the Platinum Jubilee Special Number) excels in every respect i.e., starting from TRIPLE STREAM down to the last page.  The glimpses of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations (printed in black & white) would have been more gorgeous if they were printed in colour.  The translation work of Smt. Satyasree is excellent and upto the mark.  The inaugural address of Justice K. Jayachandra Reddy, is all the while arresting, thought provoking and thoroughly judicious in content.   I am moved by the scholarly wisdom of Dr. S. Rukmini with regard to her article on ‘Sri Aurobindo and Poetry’.  It is highly critical, clearly interpreted and philosophical at its best.”
- P. V. Laxmi Prasad, Karimnagar

I must place Ramakotiswara Rao (Kolavennu) as the first among Andhra Journalists whom I know not because he “discovered” me and gave me the first chance in literary journalism and then in political journalism but because he was an excellent editor not only in maintaining the high class journal TRIVENI at great cost but in editing it with great care and punctiliousness which I did not see anywhere else.

He insisted on standards in accepting articles but he also showed courage in rejecting them, apart from rejecting advertisements.
- M.Chalapati Rao, Editor,
NATIONAL HERALD, Lucknow
(Page 319, ‘Journalism and Politics’)

25^th Platinum Jubilee Special Number of ‘Triveni’ is a wonderful combination of prose, poetry and literary critique.  I enjoyed the articles by Dr. D. Samarender Reddy and Prof. N.G. Ranga. 

Poem by D.V.Sahani is superb. I congratulate the poet. I also liked the poems by K.M. Kale, G. Somaseshu and Abdul Rashid Bijapure.
- R.K.Sundram, Indore

Iam glad that you are devoting
time and energy to render true
service to fellow humans through
the TRIVENI journal with established
reputation for disseminating cultural
and spritual values integrated with ethical
code of conduct in life
- Prof. C. Sitatarama Murthy, 
Visakhapatnam
tc "READERS’ MAIL"

R.I.P

We regret to announce the demise of Mr. Justice Nittoor Srinivasa Rau, (of the Mysore High Court) Bangalore, a centenarian. He had been a member of the Advisory Council of the TRIVENI till he passed away.  When the late Sri   Kolavennu Ramakotiswara Rau, the founder-editor was in jail, he took initiative in celebrating the Silver Jubilee of the Triveni along with the late Sampatgiri Rao, Late Sri Masti and other friends.  He sent his article to the Souvenir of the Platinum Jubilee Celebrations recently. 
May his soul rest in peace!!!