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Social and Political in Vemana’s Thought
—K Srinivasulu
Vemana has been immensely popular for his compositions in the Telugu-speaking parts of India. Anyone who is a literate has been exposed to the wisdom of Vemana available in the form of Sataka. It is through various institutions and modes like the family, school through its Telugu primers and in the larger society through oral cultural forms, popular recitation and the Telugu cinema that Vemana has become a part of Telugu common-sense; his influence without any exaggeration could be said to have crossed the formal barriers of literacy. What has been the reason for the immense reception, reputation and recitation of Vemana in everyday life in a Telugu country that could perhaps be compared ...
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