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|  The Tripurnenis: Siddharth Katragadda comes from a family rich in Artistic heritage, chiefly from his meternal side, the Tripuranenis. His great grandfather, Tripuraneni Ramaswamy Choudhuri, was a revolutionary poet during India's Freedom Struggle. The Indian Government released a postal stamp in his name. Here is his Fact Bite His grandfather, Tripuraneni Gopichand, was winner of the Sahitya Academy Award.Servant Girl is one of his short stories.Her Personality is yet another short story. Here is one of his short stories in Telugu. His maternal uncle, Sai Chand, has acted in numerous Telugu Films, most famously Maa Bhoomi. Note: Sitting Lto R- Ram Gopal, Prameela, Shakuntala, Rajini. Standing LtoR:Ramesh, Gopichand (with Nalini) | Tripuraneni Ramaswamy Chowdhuri: 
The Kaviraju (As he is popularly known in Andhra Pradesh), a fearless freedom fighter, a great native poet and an uncompromising rationalist, was born in a farmer's family in village Angaluru, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh, on the 15th January, 1887.His entire family comprised of literati and in his childhood, he wanted to learn Sanskrit, but was put off by the traditional pundits. Shri Ramaswamy's zeal and quest led him to the study of Sanskrit and to a very thorough understanding and critical study and analysis of the Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas and Itihasas. He concluded that the decadence of Hindu society was due to misinterpretation of our great Indian texts and that there is no sanction for the caste system or for untouchability and that it is the vested and self interest of the privileged section of the society that has been keeping millions in ignorance, illiteracy, superstitious beliefs and degraded status. He took to intensive and extensive propagation of reform through his poetry, dramas, lengthy dissertations and extensive discourses.
He used his considerable literary talents to write beautifully in Telugu to lead people to rational thought. His works on. Bhagwad Gita, Soota Purana, Sambukavadha, Khooni, Rana Pratap and Kurukshetra Sangramam stirred the masses to rational thought and action. He saw that social reform and awakening of the masses were inextricably linked up with the freedom movement. His songs and Satakas inspired people to participate in Gandhiji's Satyagraha Movements. He demystified the marriage rituals by writing in Telugu Vivaha Vidhi and conducting the marriages in a simple, meaningful way and also preserving the solemnity and dignity that our ancients had built into the Hindu marriage.
He studied in London and Dublin to become a Bar-at-law but gave up is lucrative practice to propagate social reform through his literary talents. As Chairman of Tenali Municipality, he put and end to all irrational and traditional practices and rituals like animal sacrifices and superstitious observances, unmindful of popularity, but upholding his beliefs and rational thought He died in 1943.
The prime Minister Shri Rajiv Gandhi paid tribute to him for his patriotic, reformist and literary contributions and the Government of Andhra Pradesh installed his statue as one of the Telugu greats, on the picturesque Tank Bund in Hyderabad.
The Department of Posts is happy to issue a commemorative stamp on Kaviraju Tripuraneni Ramaswamy Chowdary in the series 'India's struggle for freedom'. |
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| | Tripuraneni Gopichand (1910-1962): Telugu novelist, short story writer, editor, essayist, playwright and film director, Gopichand's writings are ramarkable for an interplay of values, ideas and 'isms' -- materialism, rationalism, existentialism, realism and humanism. He is celebrated for his second novel Asamardhuni Javayatra (The Incompetent's Life Journey).This is the first psychological novel in Telugu literature.
| | Novels: - Sastry Veelunama
- Cheekati Gadulu
- Yamapasam
- Premopahatula
- Asamarthuni JeevaYatra (first Telugu Psychoanalysis Novel)
- Parivartana
- Pandita Parameswara
- Sidhilalayam
- Gadiya Padani Talupulu
Non-Fiction: - Tatvavetalu
- Postu Chaiyani Uttarulu
- Maku Unnayi Sogatalu
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Tripuraneni Saichand:
| Those who remember the films like maa bhoomi, maro malupu, manchu pallaki, etc. cannot forget Saichand. Childhood: Saichand is the son of the famous writer Late Sree Tripuraneni Gopichand. Being the youngest son, Saichand was pampered a lot, as usual. As a member of Andhra Balananda Sangham, he took part in plays from a young age. (He received the best child artiste award from the then Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.) Gopichand gaaru passed away when Saichand was six years old. After his father passed away, Sai was joined in famous atheist Late Sree Gora's school in Vijayawada. Later, he pursued B.Com. in Bangalore College and returned to Hyderabad. Into films: As Sai was closely associated with the famous artist Chandra (who used to live next to his house in Narayanaguda), artist and director B. Narasinga Rao and others, he was accidentally chosen to act in the film maa bhoomi. The original choice was Narayana Rao, who earlier worked with Mrinal Sen in the film mana oori katha. However, Narayana Rao went to Karlovary Film Festival and it was known that he'd stay there for two months. The producers of maa bhoomi wanted to start the film immediately and were searching for someone to fit the role of Ramaiah, and finally chose Saichand for the role. Initially, the project was a start-to-finish one that was expected to be done in two months, but the film shooting was dragged for more than a year due to schedule upset owing to bad weather and other reasons. His brief stint with films: After the huge success of the film, he started getting more roles; he acted in films like yuvatram kadilindi (1980), marO malupu, manchu pallaki (1982), ee charitra yE siraatO (1982), peLLeeDu pillalu (1982), rangula kala (1983), Siva (1990), and ankuram (1993). ankuram was his last film. As he always wanted to act in meaningful films, he was bored with the commercial format that dominated the field, and he stopped doing films and started concentrating on his passion to make films of his choice. His passion: His dream was to make documentaries on living legends; he made some and submitted them to Doordarshan, and was the project was approved and became a hit with the audience. Later, he made Cinema Cinema with ETV and panDita Parameshwara Sastry veelunaamaa (A great classical written by his father Sree Gopichand, this work won a Sahitya Academy award in prose in Telugu in 1963 from the Central Government.) as a telefilm. All his projects got great appreciation. The telefilm got State Nandi Award too. At Present: From childhood, he was greatly inspired by the famous documentary director Sree Sukhdev, and so he started making documentaries to organizations such as PLAN International, and also to the Govt. of India and the Govt. of A.P. Some of his documentaries include: Grain storage, Dry-land agriculture, Rice production technology, Pest management, Sorghum production technology, Information technology for common man, Water shed, Water users associations, chEnEta kaarmikulu, and Faminisation agriculture in A.P. | Tripuraneni Kamal: | NRI student wins global space science contest | | PTI` | | |  MOSCOW: An Indian student was honored with the first prize in a prestigious international space science competition for his project on industrial extraction of oxygen from the lunar soil to commercialize space travel.
Kamal Tripuraneni’s project ‘A Greater Viability of Space Travel by the Lunar Generation of Oxygen via the FFC-Cambridge Process’ has been adjudged as the best by an international jury of experts and awarded first prize of ‘Robert A Heinlein Flight into the Future Contest,’ a spokesman for the US-based trust that conducts it said after presentation of awards.
“The project of Indian student Kamal Tripuraneni, currently studying in Cambridge, would help in industrial extraction of oxygen and metals from the lunar soil to commercialize space travel,” Dmitry Peison, secretary of the contest, said.
Along with $3,500 cash prize and diploma, Tripuraneni would also benefit from the international recognition of his work.
The contest is conducted by the US Heinlein Prize Trust and assisted by the Russian Aviation and Space Scientific Innovation Educational Complex (RASSIEC).
The competition aims at encouraging young international students and researchers in the field of space exploration.
Created to honor the memory of renowned American author Robert A Heinlein, the contest, originally for citizens from European, African, and West Asian nations, also allows students under 30 regardless of nationality, attending any European, African, or Middle Eastern institution.
Contest entries should include scientific, technical and business plan of the proposed project.
Two more projects prepared by Indian students Rohan Sahani, V Anbarasan and R Ravivarman, studying in Europe, was among the 20 entries which reached the final of the contest along with the works of their fellows from Britain, Italy, Ukraine, Georgia and Russia. | |
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