Friday, November 02, 2007

Don't neglect Telugu, students told

KADAPA: District Intellectuals Forum president M. Vivekananda Reddy expressed concern on Thursday that people were neglecting their mother tongue in their urge to learn English.

Speaking at the A.P. Formation Day celebrations at Pushpagiri school here, he said though learning English became imperative for professional education and business purposes, students and youth should be fluent in Telugu too. He urged the Government to ensure that Telugu has a place of pride in the society. He wanted tourism-related programmes taken up to propagate the glorious history of the State.

Students attired as Vedic pandits recited slokas and poems. Principal Sivakumar and large number of students participated. Pushpagiri school students performed two dances on the occasion.

Courtesy: The Hindu

3 comments:

  1. Telugu nijamgaa mumduku vellaalamt`ee daanini Roman script loo vraayaka tappadu. Telugu granthaalanni ati veegam gaa internet loo pet`t`a valasandi.

    Telugu script with nearly 16,000 signs (alphabet, gunintaalu, vattulu, etc.) might have done great service in the past. But today, it is a hurdle for everybody to learn Telugu easily. The school dropouts in Elementary schools are more because Telugu script is very difficult to learn (among many other reasons).

    We have to translate nearly one lakh Telugu books into English and place them on Internet for the world to study them. Telugu literature is richer than or at least equal to English literature. We can treat Tripuraneni Gopichand as equal to Somerset Maugham.
    Anyway I greatly appreciate your effort. But I am unable to read anything given by you in Telugu script because fonts have not been installed at this internet cafe. I could only see some squares.

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  2. తెలుగు వారికి మీరు అందిస్తున్న సేవలు మేము ఎప్పుడూ గుర్తు పెట్టుకుంటాం. మా పాఠశాల బ్లాగ్ లో మన బ్లాగ్ లింక్ ను పెట్టి మా విద్యార్ధులకు మీ సేవలు చూపిస్తున్నాం.
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