టోక్యోలో ఆట పాటలతో ఉగాది

జపాన రాజ్ధాని టోక్యో నగరంలో ఉగాది వేడుకలు ఆటపాటలతో అహ్ళాదకరంగా జరిగాయ్ . జపాన తెలుగు సమాఖ్యా ఆధ్పర్యంగా వేడుకల్ని నిర్వహించారు . దాదాపు 250 మందికి పైగా ప్రవాసాంధ్రులు ఈ ఉత్సవాలకు హాజరయ్యారు . పార్థివ నామ సంవస్త్ర పంచాంగశ్రవణం జరిగింది . బాలలు ్ప్రదర్శించిన విచిత్ర వేషదారణ్, సుమే విన్యాసాలు అందరిని ఆకర్శించాయ్ . జపనీయులు ప్రదర్శించిన భరతనాట్యం ప్రేక్శకుల ప్రశంస అందుకోంది . అనంతరం తెలుగు వంటకాల్ని కొసరి కొసరి వడ్డించారు. పర్వదిన సందర్భంగా ప్రదర్శిన ఉగాది నాటకం అందరిని ఆకట్టుకొంది .

- ఈనాడు

Telugu Women Writers of the Last Millenium

Gangadevi
Gangadevi (14th Century) was the daughter of Kakatiyas and the daughter-in-law of the Vijayanagara Dynasti founded by Bukkarayalu and Harihara Rayalu. She was the wife of Kamaparayalu, the third son of Bukkarayalu. The rulers of both Kaktiya and Vijayanagar dynasties are indigenous Telugu communities. She wrote the true story of her husband's victory over Muslims in Madhura, entitled "Madhura Vijayamu." This Kavyamu (poem) is also known as "Veerakamparaya Charitramu," and contains 8 chapters.

Tallapaka Timmakka
Tallapaka Timmakka (15th Century) was the first woman to write in Telugu. She was the first wife of Tallapaka Annamacharya. Tallapaka family was a Brahmin family. She wrote Subhadhraklyaanamu in Telugu, a poem of 1170 verses. Although Arjuna of Mahabharat of North India was the hero of the story, she reenacted the story with Telugu culture, customs, sensuality and Telugu places.

Atukuri Molla
Molla (16th Century) was born into Atukuri family, a Kummari (potter) caste/tribe family. She wrote Ramayanamu in Telugu. This work is also known as Molla Ramayanamu. She used simple Telugu instead of Sanskrit.

Tirumalamba
Tirumalamba wrote "varadambica parinayamu," the story of marrriage of Achyuta Devarayalu, in Sanskrit language.

Leelavati
She was the daughter of a Brahmin mathematics professor Bhaskaracharya. She wrote a text of mathematics called "leelavati ganitamu' in Sanskrit.

Triveni
Triveni is the daughter of Udayendrapuram Anatacharyulu and the wife of Prativadibhayankaram Venkatacharyulu. Her contributions include unpublished Lakshminadha Sahasramu, Ranganadha Sahasramu, Srirangabhydayamu, Tatvamudra bhadrodayamu, Sukasandesamu, Bhrungasandesamu etc. in Sanskrit language.

Madhuravani
Madhuravani's original name was Sukavani. She was a court poetess of King Raghunadha. She translated Raghunadha's Telugu Ramayanamu into Sanksrit. However, only part of this Sanskrit "Ramayana sarakavya tilakamu" is available.

Rangajamma
Ranagajamma, also known as Rangaji, was the daughter of Pasupuleti Mangamamba and Venkatadri. She is a wife (or concubine) and a court poetess of King Vijayaraghava (17th century). She is considered to belong to a Vesya (concubine) community. However, these Vesyas were highly respected and weilded lot of power and social status in the Telugu country. Her contributions include Mannaru Dasavilasamau.

Muddupalani
Muddupalani was a court poetess and a concubine of Marathi King Pratapasimha (18th century). Her father was Mutyalu and mother was Potiboti. She wrote sensual poetry called 'Radhika Santvanamu' to prove that women can write lust and sex as well as or even better than men! Being a Vesya (concubine or prostitute) it was not
difficult for her to write about lust and sex. Her poetry is considered sweet, in which she uses a lot of popular sayings and proverbs effectively.

Tarigonda Venkamamba
Tarigonda Venkamamba (19th century) has a special place in Telugu women writers. She was a child widow. Child marriages (with old men ready to die) were common in 19th century. She was born into a family of Nandavareeks sect of Brahmin tribe/caste. Her father was Krishnayamatya and mother was Mangamamba. Her teacher was Prof.
Subrahmnayudu. Her poetic contributions include Venkatachala Mahatmyamu, Vasista Ramamyanamu, Rajayogasaramu, Bhagavatamu, Krishnamanjari. Almost all of her writings are devotional, religious and philosophical.

Kotikalapudi Seetamma
Kotikalapudi Seetamma (late 19th and early 20th century) was a follower of Kandukuri Veeresalingamu Pantulu. Her contributions include Ahalyabai, Sadhuraksha Satakamu, Bhaktimargamu, Satidharmamu etc. She presided over the first Telugu Women Writer's meeting called Pradhamandhra Mahilasabha in Bapatla in 1913.

Other Women Writers
Some other famous 19th century women are: Bhandaru Achchamamba, Burra Suramamba, emuri Saradamba, Mamidanna Subhadhramma, Seeramu Subhadhrayamma, Avadhoota Gnanamaba, Jooloori Tulasamma, etc.

Later writers include: Chilakapati Seetamba, Chebrolu Saraswatidevi, Chilakapati Seetamba, Gudipudi Indumatidevi, Burra Kamaladevi,Sthanapati Rukminamma, Ganti Krishnavenamma, Dronamraju Lakshmibayamma, Kanaparti Varalakshmamma, Somaraju Indumatidevi, Chavaqli Bangaramma, Pallapragada Viswasundaramma, Krottapalli
Lalita, Utukuri Lakshmikantamma, etc.

In the contemporary time (later part of the 20th century), a number of women novelists became popular: Jayanti Suramma, Pulugurti Laksjminaramamba, Seeramu Subhadramba, Kanaparti lakshminaramma,Illindala Saraswatidevi, Malati Chandoor, Lata, Muppalla Ranganayakamma, Vasireddi Seetadevi, Koddori Kousalyadevi,
Yaddanapudi Sulochanarani, Binadevi, P. Anandaramam, Dvivedula Visalalkshi, D. Kameswari, Madireddi Sulochana, Ramalakshmi,Asalata, Parimala Someswar, etc.

Zee Telugu to relaunch on 18 May

By SONALI KRISHNA Indiantelevision.com Team

(25 April 2005 5:00 pm)

MUMBAI: Zee Telefilms is working on a new recipe to take grip of the Telugu language market which has been traditionally under the dominance of Gemini TV and ETV Telugu. Come 18 May Zee Telugu will adorn a a new avatar and focus on audiences that has not specifically been addressed by the other channels. The relaunch will see a shift in positioning - From the mass based general entertainment mode to an upwardly mobile and young milieu.

The new strategy will see Zee Telugu targeting the SEC ABC (15 - 34) group. Apparently, the Telugu space till date has no definite positioning from any channel, as they either offer mass based general entertainment or news based programmes. Now, Zee Telugu, with its redefinition of its TG, will try and capture a space where class programming will be offered. "It will be a battle of "class Vs mass programming," points out a Zee official. The vision is to have a definite positioning that can stand apart from what is currently being offered. To add momentum to its Telugu plans, Zee had appointed former ETV hand Ajay Kumar as senior vice-president and business head in February this year. Post Zee Telugu's launch, the channel hopes to spruce up its channel share to about 8-10 per cent, four to six months hence. On the pogramming front, the channel is currently working with reputed content providers and hoping to gain a lot more channel share after the facelift. If one looks at the current standing of the Telugu channel, it garners less that one per cent of channel share in the market. The leaders of the Telugu space are Gemini TV and ETV. Zee's other regional channels will also be a key area of focus in the days to come considering 40 per cent of viewership comes from down South.

Telugu Localization of the GNU / Linux Desktop

http://telugu.sarovar.org/wiki/

http://sarovar.org/projects/telugu/

Telugu thrives in Mauritius

Bhimavaram, April 19: The Mauritius government was very keen to conduct research on Indian languages such as Telugu, Tamil and Hindi, said radio personality and researcher Mr Sanjeeva Narasimha Appadu.
Speaking to mediapersons here on Tuesday, Mr Appadu, who is in the State to conduct research on Rangoli (popularly known as muggulu), said that the Mauritius government had declared an official holiday on the Andhra Pradesh State Formation Day to honour Telugus in the country.

It had also given holidays for other Hindu festivals such as Ugadi, Diwali, Dasara, Sankranti and Vinakayakachathurthi. Several Indian languages including Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, Hindi, and Urdu were taught in the government schools of the island country, apart from Chinese, he said. "There are about 89 evening schools teaching Telugu language," said Mr Appadu. There was a Telugu television channel telecasting programmes in the language, he said.

The Mauritius government was also keen on developing institutions to conduct research and training on Kuchipudi, Bharatanatyam and
Carnatic Music, he added. Mr Appadu said that about 10,000 Telugus had migrated to the Mauritius during the British era to cultivate forest lands. There were at least 60,000 Telugus in the country at present, he added.

Source: The Deccan Chronicle

Sanskrit and Telugu in Medieval Andhra

Coconut and Honey : Sanskrit and Telugu in Medieval Andhra

- Velcheru Narayana Rao

Breaking the language barrier, ETT-style

Saturday April 16 2005 09:22 IST

VISAKHAPATNAM: Computers are constantly conquering new frontiers and now are all set to break the ‘language barrier’ with the advanced software being developed.

That’s what M Prasanth Kiran, a B.Tech final year student of the Avanti Institute of Engineering and Technology, Narsipatnam, has achieved, morphing computers into user-friendly tools for those poor in English.

When assigned to select a project of his choice, Kiran hit upon the novel idea of translating English text to Telugu. He soon succeeded in developing his dream software, the ‘English Telugu Translator’ (ETT) -- a package not yet fully developed anywhere else.

ETT uses Java and other Microsoft programming tools to translate English sentences into Telugu by following Telegu grammar rules. The output can be seen in the Telugu script and heard in speech form with the help of sound-generator software.

But what makes Kiran’s software unique? Though software that can translate tool bars, icons and menus into Telugu is currently available, his software goes a step further and can translate the entire text.

For instance, an English sentence such as:‘I am going to school every day with my friends’ initially comes out as ‘Nenu paatasalaki prati roju na mitrulato veltunnanu’. The same thing appears in Telugu a few moments later. Similarly, when a Yahoo web page is opened, the welcome note appears as ‘Yahooki swaagatam’. This is possible because of a unique dictionary, which Kiran developed to suit his specifications.

The budding innovator told this website's newspaper that he is fine tuning his software further so that it can be integrated with other systems so as to enable the user to listen to standard telephone messages in Telugu, get SMS messages and e-mails in Telugu and scroll English news messages in the visual media and convert movie sub-titles into Telugu.

Also, by using speech recognition software, ETT can convert spoken English into Telugu with the same voice.

Kiran exhibited his software during the RINL Formation Day celebrations held recently, where he won the appreciation of the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) CMD Y Siva Sagara Rao.

Also, the Computer Society of India, city chapter, has commended his achievement.

NewIndiapress.com

Explanation about Unicode

The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)

ugAdi in Mauritius

http://www.lexpress.mu/display_article_sup.php?news_id=39707
Article publié le Mardi 12 avril 2005.

Ougadi or Telugu New Year, an occasion for peace and sharing

A cultural show was held at the Mauritius Andhra Maha Sabha. Unlike many religious celebrations, Ougadi is not celebrated on the streets. The Telugu New Year remains very traditional with people having lunch or dinner with their relatives and cultural shows organised. Prayers and cakes distributed to relatives, friends and neighbours are also part of the festival celebrated last Saturday. The day starts with a purifying wash – the mangala snaanam – before the sun on Saturday morning. Then, after put- ting on chandrika oil and massaging themselves with a paste made with cereals, the Telugus are ready to start the celebration of the creation of the Universe by the God Brahmâ. The patchadi – a mixture of green mangoes, tamarind, lilac flowers, chilli and salt – is prepared and offered to God in a special prayer to ask for his protection. They then go to the temple where they are read the panchagam (Telegu almanac). This special day is also a time for decorative activities like the mugga, which are beautiful and colourful designs made with different seeds and spices. The only discordant note last Saturday was the use of this religious celebration by some politicians for their own propaganda purposes. While Ougadi is supposed to be the occasion when messages of peace, fraternity and unity are sent out our politicians did not miss the occasion to… do politics. Political misbehaviour After opposition leader, Navin Ramgoolam, reminded the audience in his speech that there is a need to live in harmony and that no one should remain withdrawn from others, Pravind Jugnauth, deputy prime minister and minister of Finance, seized the opportunity to castigate him. After implying that Navin Ramgoolam was finally recognising the good work done by the government in terms of national unity, he even spoke of the budget saying that the population should be aware that it was in the country’s interest. Although the prime minister, Paul Bérenger, was not as direct, he nevertheless mentioned the criticisms against the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation, asserting that his government would propose new legislation after the next elections…

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Font Development

Microsoft Typography

Tools and SDKs for font development

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/DevToolsOverview.mspx

Developing Open Type fonts for Telugu script

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/OpenType%20Dev/telugu/intro.mspx

Telugu fonts

Fonts from CDAC ( Center for Development of Advanced Computing), India.

తెలుగు ఫాంత్లు

Telugu lyrics

తెలుగు చలనచిత్ర పాటలు ...తెలుగు అక్షరమంలో
http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~kalyan/telugu.html

Microsoft Office 2003 తెలుగు ఇంటర్ఫేస్ ప్యాక్

MS Office 2003 తెలుగు ఇంటెర్ఫేస్

ఉగాది (Ugadi) - The Indo American Way

A unicode article on the TLCA ( Telugu Literary and Cultural Association ) website about Ugadi, the Telugu New Year.

http://www.tlca.com/adults/ugadi-iaw.html