What’s Your Name? (Part-3) Telugu Original : Gurajada Appa Rao English Translation: Naudury Murthy “Raminaidu walked up to Manavallayya. Holding his hand and pressing it as a gesture of immediacy, said, ‘Listen, you Vaishnavite! If Sarathi Naidu converts to Saivism, all of us will miss his special oblations Pulihora and Chakkera Pongali offered every Dwadasi […]
Continue ReadingWhat’s Your Name? (Part-2) Telugu Original : Gurajada Appa Rao English Translation: Naudury Murthy We stayed with our childhood pal Sayanna Bhukta for three days. He studied Logic under the tutelage of Sastry garu. He had good grounding in literature as well, and penned poetry occasionally. On the third day, the four of us were […]
Continue ReadingWhat’s Your Name? (Part-1) Telugu Original : Gurajada Appa Rao English Translation: Naudury Murthy God-made men! Man-made Deities! What’s your name? Whenever we expressed our incredulity about the content in Puranas, our revered teacher Sastry garu used to censure us saying, “Your education is a silly putty. You have lost your sense of reason. You […]
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“What I have asked amma this morning?” Tamil Original : Gopalakrishnan Murugesan English Translation: V.Chandrasekaran “Appa, tell me. What I have asked amma this morning?” Nivetha’s voice invited my attention. She stand near to me with rolling eyes. Immediately she pulled out the newspaper from my hand. She had a rubber in her left hand […]
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Mother’s Day Indraganti Janaki Bala Translation: Swatee Sripada When the phone went on ringing before it turned morning, Shakunthala took the phone lying beside her pillow, without even opening her eyes. Guessing who it might be kept the phone near the ear and said “hello” “Shaku! Good news for you! To tell you that I […]
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MY DEAREST FRIEND Dr. KB LAKSHMI Translation -swatee Sripada The incessant humming of the phone! I dashed to it and lifted the receiver, “hello” “Is it Atulya?” the voice from the other side enquired. “Just a minute” without any delay keeping the receiver down, ran into the kitchen turned off both the burners […]
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Silent heaven Muktevi Bharathi Translation: swatee sripada “Let us go on a tour for a month” Sarojini said adjusting the string of jasmines in her hair. “You go” slipping his spectacles on to the nose Ramam said. Son and daughter invite them to their homes but Ramam says it’s not possible for him to go […]
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Fire furnace Original-Dr. Aluri Vijaya Lakshmi Translation –swatee sripada Janaki sat up with a startle. The lamenting of Sharwari as if a fact in dream moved like a whirlwind in her years. Pressing her cheeks with both the palms, she tried to suppress the emotion in her heart. She tossed a vexed look at her […]
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Stretched wings Yaddanapudi SulochanaRani –Vippukunna Rekkalu Translation-Swatee Sripada “Rajju, Rajju” beating with fists on closed doors, her voice sounded like a thunderbolt. The closed doors didn’t open. “Rajita! Open the door.” Prabhakar’s voice thundered as a military officer’s order. No answer. “Rajji open the door! Or shall I burn the room? Turn You into ashes” […]
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The voice of courage Abburi Chaya Devi Translation : Swatee Sripada They have been discussing seriously about the selection of a scene from “Kanya shulkam”. Members of “Mitra Samithi” organization […]
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The male Samatha Roshni Translation: swatee Sripada We are ten to fifteen, good friends. We meet twice or thrice a year. We discuss joys and troubles, literature; stories so on and so forth. We talk everything, eat and drink what we like the best and celebrate. I have to tell this number ten to fifteen […]
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There is a way………… Sivaraju Subbalakshmi Translation: Swatee Sripada Doctor Madhava Rao, though came to that village just recently became very popular. He treated the poor compassionately. Kamala, the lady doctor, working with him in the same hospital thought in the beginning all his generosity was pretense to earn a good name, later she started […]
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