e-TELUGU PATRIKA

e-TELUGU PATRIKA
Electronic Telugu & English Quarterly Magazine, September, 2002 (Vol.4 & No.4)

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We are sorry that the December issue is not released due to some urget commitments to other problems by the editors. The new issue will be released in late January 2003.

Managing Editor: B.Bhaskara Rao (Sydney)
Honorary Editor: Dr Durvasula Murthy (Sydney)
Associate Editor: D. Chandrasekhara Rao (Amadalavalasa).

Honorary Editorial Advisory Board:
Nidadavolu Malathi (USA), Vasundhara (Bhubaneswar),
Dr Avula Manjulatha (Hyderabad) and Vasireddy Naveen (Hyderabad).

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Sponsors

Uma Yalamanchali and her family

This issue of Patrika is dedicated to the memory of

 Yeluri Subbarao, father of Uma.

About the sponsor: Uma was born and brought up at Machilipatnam and she is a Computer Engineer in the USA. She likes Telugu literature and especially writers like Chalam, Kodavatiganti Kutumbarao etc.

Introduction
Bhaskar Rao (Sydney)

This issue is sponsored by Yalamanchali Uma (USA) in memory of her father. She has also donated, in his memory, four Katha Puraskaram awards. She is the first of such donors and we gratefully acknowledge her generous contribution.

In this issue there are three KathaPuraskaram award winning stories. Ponnada Kumar’s Olammoo! E-ammi is awarded the KathaPuraskaram award, donated by Garre Lalitha in memory of her father-in-law, Garre Subba Rao. The Yeluri Subba Rao memorial award, donated by Yalamanchali Uma, is jointly awarded to K.V. Vijaya Lakshmi’s Maarupu and Dr Mula Ravi Kumar’s Balipashuvu.

We have also awarded, retrospectively, the new Katha Protsaham award (see below about this new award) to Ponnada Umamaheswara Rao for his Yantrabhutam published in the previous issue. It is felt that the message in this story is very much relevant to the contemporary situation. Congratulations to all the award winners.

In addition there is a very humours radio play by Dr Durvasula. A couple of touching stories by Smt. Nidadavolu Malathi and Kuppili Padma. Dr Murty’s play was broadcast on the Sydney Telugu Association’s radio programme and the response was overwhelming. Many NRI Telugu Associations perhaps would consider staging this play in their cities. For permission and advice you may contact Dr Durvasula by sending an email to me.

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Katha-Puraskaram & Protsaham Awards
(Revised September 2002)

Readers may be aware that many Telugu publications pay very little or no honorariums at all. To encourage quality writing and also promising new writers from India, we are giving two types of awards with honorariums between Rs.250 to Rs.500 to writers currently residing in India.. e-Telugu Patrika would be the sole copyright holder of all such award winning stories. Permission to reproduce them, in any form, should be obtained from the Managing Editor.

I. Katha-Puraskaram Award: In some respects this award is similar to the well-known Katha-Peetham award in Rachana and is administered in Rachana and also in e-Patrika by Vasundhara. Substantially original, unpublished and high quality stories are given this award, normally between Rs.350 to Rs.500. Articles for this award should be posted to: Vasundhara, Katha Puraskarm, Quarter No. 515, R.R.L. Colony, Bhubaneswar-751 013, Orissa. Some who won this award are: P S Bala, MSV Ganga Raju, Ponnada Kumar, K V Vijayalakshmi and Dr Ravi Kumar.

II. Katha Protsaham Award: To encourage good quality story writing, honorariums between Rs.200 to Rs.300 are awarded to hitherto unpublished original stories and essays. Articles should be sent to Vasundhara, Quarter No. 515, R.R.L. Colony, Bhubaneswar-751 013, Orissa or to D Chandrasekhara Rao, Associate Editor, e-Telugu Patrika, Lakshmi Cinema Buildings, Amadalavalasa-532 185. We have given this award, retrospectively, to Yantrabhutam (see the previous issue) by Ponnada Umamaheswara Rao.

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Patrika doesn't have any income. Therefore we appeal to our readers and well-wishers for donations to the Katha-Puraskaram and Protsaham awards. If you wish to donate send an email message to: awards or write to D Chandrasekhara Rao, Associate Editor, e-Telugu Patrika, Lakshmi Cinema Buildings, Amadalavalasa-532 185.

There are three schemes of donations: U$25 (A$30) or U$45 (A$60) or U$ 100 (A$150).

I. The minimum is Rs.750 (About Rs.500 for Puraskaram or about Rs250 for two Protsaham awards, and the balance to meet our Indian transaction and part typesetting costs). In foreign currency this is about U$25 (U$18 + U$7 for bank charges) or A$30. These donations may be made, for example, in the name of a dear relative, friend, teacher etc. We will publish a photograph and a brief write up supplied by you on that person. We are also willing to publish the photographs of the donors and recipients of the award.

II. One may donate for one Puraskaram or two Protsaham awards and also sponsor an entire issue of Patrika for U$45 or A$60. The balance of the award will be used to partly meet our typesetting costs in India for that issue. We are grateful to Smt Garre Lalitha (USA) and Professor Vemuri Venkateswara Rao (USA) for being the first two of such sponsors.

III. If a donor supports Katha-Puraskaram award in all the 4 issues in a year, with the permission of the authors we will supply the reformatted typeset material (PageMaker and PDF files) on a CD to encourage the donors to publish, at their expense, as a book or as CDs, of course dedicated to the nominated person. This is an exciting and a new opportunity to do something worthwhile to permanently preserve the memory of someone you love and respect. In general, such publications are good for distribution among relatives and friends or as a donation to the local Telugu association to raise funds. The donation for this scheme is U$100 or A$150, including the cost of making the master CD and its postage. We are grateful to Smt Yalamanchali Uma (USA) for being the first of such sponsors.

The following supporters of Patrika have offered Puraskaram donations:

Dr *Adusumilli Hanumayya (in memory of his late father-in-law Sri Veeramahaneni Lakshmi Narayana), Mr *John Lingutla, Mr Varigonda Subba Rao, Dr *Durvasula Murthy, Mr Kodur Ramamurthy (in memory of his late father) , Mr C. Viswanatham, Dr K. Hemachandara Rao, Dr P. Lakshminarayana (in memory of his mother) and a couple of anonymous persons.

If you wish to make a donation, please contact: awards

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