There were no glittering ceremonies or high-profile chief guests, but blacksmiths, potters, barbers, weavers, fishermen, washermen and sweepers practising their traditional vocations who were made the heroes of the day, launching books authored by their own people.
In a first-of-its-kind initiative, the literature published by writers from the backward classes was launched simultaneously at hundred places in the country with the effort of the Telangana Sahitya Akademi. The occasion was Telangana ideologue Kothapalli Jayashankar’s birth anniversary to take the literature of Bahujans to the nook and corner of the country. As a part of the initiative, the long poems ‘Bahujana Bavuta’ written by Vanapatla Subbaiah and ‘Nenu Savitribai Phule nu matladutunna’ (Me, Savitribai Phule speaking) written by Damera Ramulu were unveiled at 100 places across the country.
The idea was to take forward the Bahujan culture, arts and literature, apart from the soul of Telangana to future generations. Not just confining the beauty of the toil to just Telangana, the books were taken to people who are part of such struggles in the country, said Chairman of the Telangana Sahitya Akademi, Juluru Gowrishankar.
