SCHOOL, BINCH AND PEDAGOGUE: I think my father was my first teacher. One day when I was 7 years old, my eldest brother took me to a Government School in Hanamkonda (Warangal) and straight away I got admitted into third class. Maqdoom Mohiuddin was the class teacher. He welcomed me as he knew my father. …
(……Continued) Our’s was an open house, hospitable and giving shelter to the needy. As it was strategically located some friends coming from Hyderabad by train would stop for the night and proceed to their place next morning. They would have a meal prepared by my mother, but served by us children on plantain or in…
For 70 long years, Pendyal Vaman Rao watched and reported history in the raw and until his ninetieth year was reluctant to call it a day, busy as he was editing New Swatantra Times, a legacy he had inherited from his celebrated forerunner and father-in-law Khasa Subba Rau. Witness to many a generational shift, he…
