Hyderabad
Elchuri Muralidhara Rao, who earned the title of ‘Bālakavi’ by composing extempore poetry in the eighth grade, is the son of Elchuri Subrahmanyam, one of the renowned ‘Nayagara’ poets. After completing his P.U.C. in Madras, he earned his degree at S.R.R. College in Vijayawada. He completed his M.A. in Telugu at D.N.R. College, Bhimavaram, and later obtained his M.Phil. from Madras University for his research on the Drona Parvam.
He conducted extensive research on the literary characteristics and Chitra Kavitvam (patterned poetry) in Ganapavarapu Venkata Kavi’s Prabandha Raja Venkateswara Vijaya Vilasamu. For this work, he received high praise from scholars like Korlapati Sriramamoorthy, who hailed it as “the crown jewel among the most outstanding research books published in Telugu.”
He worked at Akashvani (All India Radio) in Vijayawada for four years and served at Sri Venkateswara College in Delhi for 38 years. His most recent publication is the essay collection titled Vangmaya Charitralo Konni Vyasa Ghattalu – Marikonni Viseshamsalu.
A journey through Telugu and Sanskrit poetry’s most dazzling feats of verbal engineering, featuring verses built from a single repeated syllable, bilingual shlokas, and riddles hidden in plain sight, and culminating in a newly reconstructed verse the author…
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