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Gratitude To My Telugu Literary Mentor ''' ''' My mentor Kavi Samraat Shri Viswanadha Satyanarayana introduced me to  Tenneti Hemalatha in 1957, a most popular Telugu writer and was a well known as Lata.  She started her career as an announcer of the AIR at Vijayawada  in 1955. She was a singer and  participated in radio plays and later acted in, and wrote dialogue for, movies. She had written<span style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;"> 105 novels, 700 radio plays, 100 short stories, ten stage dramas, five volumes of literary essays, two volumes of literary criticism, and one volume of  <span style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Lata Vyasaalu <span style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">, as well as 25  <span style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">charitra kandani Prema kathalu  <span style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">poems. Her novels Gaali Padagalu, Neeti Budagalu Mohanavamsi, and  <span style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Antharanga Chitram became a source inspiration to me <span style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">. She was a member of the Andhra Pradesh Sahitya Academy for twenty years. Andhra University honoured her with a Kalaprapoorna doctorate. She awarded as Gruhalakshmi <span style="font-size:21.5pt;font-family: "Georgia","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-language:TE"> <span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;color:black;mso-bidi-language:TE">Swarnakankanam <span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;"> in 1963. She bestowed with the "Extraordinary woman award" by the government of Andhra Pradesh in 1981.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:30.0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">She was responsible for my induction to Radio Plays. When she started <span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-language:EN-IN;mso-bidi-language: TE">writing a series of feature articles in Andhra Prabha weekly, under the running title, Uhaagaanam [musings] from 1958 to 1963, I chanced upon closely associating with her. Its success was unbelievable. Lata became a household name and the readership for the weekly magazine escalated greatly. It used to be down-to-earth and yet poetic. The Uhaagaanam articles featured her humour on one level. At another level, she also was capable of initiating challenging dialogues among the elite on topics such as god, traditional values, and religion. <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Her knack for imagery is amazing. Whether it is her sparkling enthusiasm for life or antipathy for the injustices in the society, it is always entrenched in a combination of sarcasm, sharp with an uncanny humour.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:30.0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-language:EN-IN;mso-bidi-language: TE">She covered a wide range of topics in her novels—harmony at individual or social level, underlying principles of caste, marriage, traditions in other parts of India, beliefs such as ghosts and predictions based on horoscopes, and so on. <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">This exposure moulded me and perfected me as a writer.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:30.0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;"> With most respectfully, I am offering my great tributes to Lata, who   was a prolific and influential writer who wrote about various situations and gifted me art of writing in Telugu.

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