Madhurantakam Rajaram Stories

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About the Book

Madhurantakam Rajaram Stories is a collection of forty stories which intellectually delineates the various aspects of the middle class life. Human warmth here, with subtle imagination, deep sympathy and broadest kind of weltanscchaung , encapsulates the intricate aspects of life and enables readers understand how ordinariness of existence has extraordinary strength to sustain the desire to live.

About the Author

Madhurantakam Rajaram (1930-2000) had thirteen collections of short stories, three novels, five plays, four dance dramas, two collections of lyrics to his credit. He also translated Akhilan and Jayakantan from Tamil into Telugu. Rajaram was actively associated with various literary organizations and won several awards like Andhra Pradesh Sahitya Akademi award, T. Gopichand award, K. Srinivas award, Tamil University award and honorary D.Litt. from S.K. University, Anantapur. Madhurantakam Rajaram Kathalu brought to him the Sahitya Akademi award in 1993.

D. Ranga Rao has actively been involved in teaching English since 1953 and worked on various prestigious positions. He has been translating from Telugu into English and vice versa.

The Pearl Palanquin, Light And Shade, Kausalya, Reed Bushes, Living together, Three Generations, Thorns of Life, Mandadi Kathalu are among his major publications in translation The Pearl Palanquin brought to him the first prize for best translation by Vishwa Sahiti Samithi, Hyderabad.

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