Noted litterateur and ‘Sathavadhani’ Bhoothapuri Subrahmanya Sarma was remembered at a programme organised to mark his 85 th birth anniversary, at CP Brown Library here on Sunday.
Scholar Remilla Venkata Ramakrishna Sastry, who served as the special officer in the publications wing of the University of Hyderabad, was also felicitated at the event organised under the aegis of Bhoothapuri Subrahmanya Sarma Memorial Trust and Allasani Peddana Sahitya Peetham.
Yogi Vemana University Vice-Chancellor Munagala Surya Kalavathi called upon young scholars to emulate the principles of Bhoothapuri to keep the literary embers alive.
She hailed the multi-faceted personality as a scholar, Avadhani and also an astrologer par excellence, who had brought name and fame to Kadapa.
Rachapalem Chandrasekhar Reddy, a Kendra Sahitya Akademi awardee, who presided over the event, explained the differences between Bhoothapuri’s traditional and his Marxist ideologies, representing the two extremes of Telugu literature.
K. Rama Suryanarayana, a retired professor at National Sanskrit University, Tirupati and an upcoming Avadhani, Amudala Murali hailed his literary prowess. The trustees and Bhoothapuri’s sons B. Sivarama Surendra Sarma and B. Gopalakrishna Sastry conducted the event.
