
Visionary
Poet of the Millennium
An Indian poet Prophet
Seshendra Sharma
October 20th, 1927 - May 30th, 2007
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Seshendra
Sharma is one of the most outstanding minds of modern Asia. He is the foremost
of the Telugu poets today who has turned poetry to the gigantic strides of
human history and embellished literature with the thrills and triumphs of the
20th century. A revolutionary poet who spurned the pedestrian and
pedantic poetry equally, a brilliant critic and a scholar of Sanskrit, this
versatile poet has breathed a new vision of modernity to his vernacular.Such
minds place Telugu on the world map of intellectualism. Readers conversant with
names like Paul Valery, Gauguin, and Dag Hammarskjold will have to add the name
of Seshendra Sharma the writer from India to that dynasty of intellectuals.
Rivers and poets
Are veins and arteries
Of a country.
Rivers flow like poems
For animals, for birds
And for human beings-
The dreams that rivers dream
Bear fruit in the fields
The dreams that poets dream
Bear fruit in the people-
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The sunshine of my thought fell on the word
And its long shadow fell upon the century
Sun was playing with the early morning flowers
Time was frightened at the sight of the martyr-
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Seshendra
Sharma
B.A: Andhra Christian College: Guntur:
A.P: India
B.L
: Madras University: Madras
Deputy Municipal Commissioner (37 Years)
Dept of Municipal Administration, Government
of Andhra Pradesh
Parents:
G.Subrahmanyam (Father) ,Ammayamma (Mother)
Siblings: Anasuya,Devasena
(Sisters),Rajasekharam(Younger brother)
Wife: Mrs.Janaki Sharma
Children: Vasundhara , Revathi (Daughters),
Vanamaali
,Saatyaki (Sons)
Seshendra Sharma
better known as Seshendra is
a colossus of
Modern Indian poetry.
His literature is a unique blend of the
best of poetry and poetics.
Diversity and depth of his literary
interests and his works
are perhaps hitherto unknown in Indian
literature.
From poetry to poetics, from Mantra Sastra
to Marxist Politics his writings bear an unnerving pprint of his rare genius.
His scholar ship
and command over Sanskrit , English and Telugu Languages has facilitated his
emergence as a towering personality
of comparative literature in the 20th
century world literature.
T.S.Eliot ,ArchbaldMacleish
and Seshendra Sharma are trinity of world poetry and Poetics.
His sense of dedication to the genre of art
he chooses to express himself and
the determination to reach the depths of
subject he undertakes to explore
place him in the galaxy of world poets /
world intellectuals.
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GunturuSeshendraSarma: an extraordinary
poet-scholar
One of the ironies in literature
is that
he came to be known more as a
critic than a poet
HYDERABAD:
An era of scholastic excellence and poetic grandeur has come to an end in the
passing away of GunturuSeshendraSarma, one of the foremost poets and critics in
Telugu literature. His mastery over western literature and Indian
`AlankaraSastra' gave his works a stunning imagery, unparalleled in modern
Indian works. One of the ironies in literature is that he came to be known more
as a critic than a poet. The Central SahityaAkademi award was conferred on him
for his work `KaalaRekha' and not for his poetic excellence. The genius in him
made him explore `Kundalini Yoga' in his treatise on Ramayana in `Shodasi'
convincingly. His intellectual quest further made him probe `NaishadhaKaavya'
in the backdrop of `LalitaSahasraNaamavali', `SoundaryaLahari' and `Kama Kala
Vilasam' in `SwarnaHamsa', Seshendra saw the entire universe as a storehouse of
images and signs to which imagination was to make value-addition. Like Stephene
Mallarme who was considered a prophet of symbolism in French literature,
SeshendraSarma too believed that art alone would survive in the universe along
with poetry. He believed that the main vocation of human beings was to be
artists and poets. His `Kavisena Manifesto' gave a new direction to modern
criticism making it a landmark work in poetics. Telugus would rue the
intellectual impoverishment they suffered in maintaining a `distance' from him.
Seshendra could have given us more, but we did not deserve it! The denial of
the Jnanpeeth Award to him proves it
The Hindu
India's National Newspaper
Friday, Jun 01, 2007
Who Are The Legal Heirs of Seshendra Sharma ?
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The literary
world is aware that my father Gunturu Seshendra Sharma, eminent poet,
litterateur and scholar-critic, died on 30th may 2007. Ever since he expired,
there has been no mention of his parents, family members and other personal
details in the news and in the articles about him. Not only this, fictional
lies are being spread and using money power one shady lady is being propagated
as his wife and so on. This has been causing me, as his son, a great mental
agony. That is why, through this article, I am revealing certain fundamental
truths to the literary field of this country and the civilized society. I
appeal to your conscience to uphold truth, justice and values of our composite
culture.
Seshendra
Sharma's family members are: Parents: Subrahmanyam Sharma, Ammaayamma- Wife:
Janaki Daughters: Vasundhara, Revathi, Sons: Vanamali, Saatyaki. Only these two
are legal heirs of Seshendra Sharma, socially and morally too.
Street Play and
Circus: In 1972, away from the civilized society, without the knowledge of
parents and near and dear, in a far flung village called Halebeed in Karnataka
a circus, a street play was staged. Let me make it clear that even after this
street play my father did not divorce my mother Mrs.G.Janaki legally. He never
had even a faint intention of committing such an uncivilized act. On the
contrary, in all crucial Government documents he nominated my mother as his
legal heir from time to time. During his long career as Municipal Commissioner
with The Government of Andhra Pradesh, he retired 3 times. His first retirement
came in 1975 by way of compulsory retirement for his anti establishment
writings during Mrs. Gandhi's' emergency. His second retirement came in 1983
when the then new chief minister N.T. Rama Rao's government reduced the age of
service from 58 to 55 years. The third and final retirement in the year 1985 on
attaining 58 years of age. On all these occasions, in all the government
documents, my father Seshendra Sharma nominated my mother Mrs. Janaki as his
legal heir. This is precisely why the self contradictory 'second marriage' is a
circus enacted away from the society and Law does not recognize this type of
street plays as marriage.
Lakshmi
Parvathi in literature
N.T. Rama Rao,
actor turned politician married Ms. Lakshimi Parvathi in 1994 and subsequently
in January 1995 he came to power for the second time. She used to act as an
extra constitutional power and run the matters of government and the party. She
developed her own coterie of cohorts and started dominating the party. After
NTR was toppled by his own son- in-law, most of them parted ways with her. And
the remaining touts left her for good the day NTR breathed his last. Ms.Indira
Dhanrajgir has been playing the same role in Telugu literature over a period of
more than 3 decades. In the guise of literature she developed her own coterie
of lumpens with extra literary and money mongering elements - Tangirala Subba
Rao, Velichala Kondala RAo(Editor:Jayanthi) Cheekolu Sundarayya(A.G.'s Office,
Hyderabad et al).
There are a
couple[ of dissimilarities between these two instances. After the demise of
NTR, L.P's coterie of cohorts disappeared once and for all. Whereas, in Indira
Dhanrajgir's case new lumpens are entering the field with the passage of time.
Squandering her late father's wealth, she is roping in new touts. Since NTR's
wife Basava Tarakam passed away in 1984 and since he was old and sick NTR's
marriage with LP has ethical basis and is legal completely. Whereas I.D's is
neither ethical nor legal. Hence it is a street play. This is the reason why
after my father's death she has been spending money on a larger scale and
indulging in false publicity and propaganda. Bh. Krishna Murthy, Sadasiva
Sharma (The then Editor of Andhra Prabha:Telugu Daily, presently with Hindi
Milap) Chandrasekhara Rao(Telugu lecturer: Methodist Degree College) etc. are
indulging in all sorts of heinous acts to prop up I.D as my father's wife.
My father
passed away on 30 May 2007. When our family was in grief and I was performing
the 11 day ritual as per my mother's wish, the above mentioned Sadasiva Sharma
went to Municipal Office on 4th June, created ruckus, played havoc telling them
that he is from the Prime Minister's Office , мейд some 'senior officials' make
phone calls to the officials concerned and got my father's death certificate
forcibly issued. When the entire family was mourning the death of the family
head, a stranger and a lumpen S.S -Why did he collect my father's death
certificate forcibly from the municipal authorities? Whom did he collect it
for?
THREE NAMES OF
THE SAME PERSON IN 3 DECADES
This is perhaps
for the first time that the name of a lady appears in 3 forms at a time.
Perhaps in 1970, in my father's collection of poems"PAKSHULU her name
appeared As Rajkumari Indira Devi Dhanrajgir. In 2006 she published a fake
version of Kamaostav(Rewritten by a muffian Called Chandrasekhara Rao) . In
this book her name appears as R.I.D.D. Prior to 1970 in Maqdoom
Mohiuddeen's(Renowned Urdu Poet) anthology of poetry 'Bisath -E-Raks', in Urdu
as well as Hindi , at the end of two poems her name appears as Kumari Indira
Dhanrajgir. On 15th June 2007 A.P state cultural affairs department and Telugu
University jointly held my father's memorial meeting. I.D hijacked this meeting
by issuing her own commercial advertisements in English and Telugu dailies. In
these advertisements her name appeared as Smt. Indira Devi Seshendra Sharma and
again in the commercial public notices мейд by her in the month of November
2007her name appeared as Rajkumari devi etc. Why does her name appear in
different forms on different occasions? Will I.D explain? Will Sadasiva Sharma
clarify, who forcibly took my father's death certificate after four days of his
death? Or will Bh.Krishna Murthy clarify?
If I.D has even
an iota of regard, respect for or faith in love, or relation, the institution
of marriage, immediately after'Halebeed Circus', she would have used my
father's family sir name and her name would have appeared as Gunturu Indira.
Since she was conscious of her goal during all times and conditions she did not
take such a hasty and mindless step of change of her name.
WHERE DOES THE
REAL SECRET LIE? Her life is totally illegal, anti-social and immoral. I.D's
father performed her marriage with SRikishenSeth, Nephew of the then Prime
minister to Nizam, Maharaja Kishen pershad in 1945. On the day of marriage
itself I.D beat SrikeshenSeth up and ran away from him. She did not stop at
that. She propagated among his friends and relatives and near and dear that he
was not enough of a man and unfit for conjugal/ marital life. She filed a
divorce case against him and dragged it till 1969/70. Lion's share of her
husband's life got evaporated and was sapped completely by then. His parents
used to approach I.D's father and plead with him to prevail upon his daughter,
put sense into her head and see that she either lives with their son or
dissolves the marriage legally so that they can remarry off their son. But I.D
did not heed. Raja Dhanrajgir after getting disgusted with her nasty activities
stipulated a mandatory condition in his will. He stated that I.D would be
entitled to get a share of his property only if she is married.
This is the
reason why ID who has no respect for the institution of marriage or regard or
desire for marital life , in the guise of love and love poetry inflicted
indelible blemish on the institution of marriage which is unprecedented in the
literary history of the world. After my father's death she has been indulging
in more rigorous false publicity along with her coterie of touts.
KAMOSTAV:STORY
OF ID'S SOUL:
With this novel
Kamostav, father's literary life came to an end for good. He did not produce
literary works worth mentioning in his later phase of life. During those days he
asked for my opinion on that novel. I told him clearly that it lacks the form
and content of a novel- it does not have a story line, plot, sequences,
characters and eventually a message which every novel gives. Hence it is a
trash. Several people went to court and got its publication in a weekly
stopped. ID got this very trash rewritten completely by Chandrasekhara Rao and
printed it. This kind of heinous development has never taken place in the
recorded history of Telugu literature till date. A writing which brought
disrepute to my father in the literary field and isolated him in the society,
why did she get it rewritten by somebody and publish it claiming copyright to
be hers? What is her motive? What is her aim? That is why Kamotsav is ID's
biography, story of her inner soul.
SESHENDRA'S
COPYRIGHTS:
My father
gifted away copyrights of his entire works along with their translations to me
by way of birth day gift to me on 2.12.1989. Since then I have published
several of his works during his lifetime itself. Kamostav, the version that is
secretly мейд available is the dirty work of cheapsters and lumpens under the
leadership of ID. It is much worse than violation of copyrights. That is the
reason why I have been reluctant to take action so far. If she and her debased
henchmen try to violate copyrights of my father's works bequeathed to me, I
shall take exemplary legal action against them.
ID мейд 2
public notices to the effect that my father cancelled all his earlier transfer
of copyrights and retransferred all his rights to her. This is a palace
intrigue in the modern era in our civilized society.
WHAT DOES LAW
SAY ABOUT COPYRIGHTS?
An author can
transfer copyrights of his works to any one as per her/his wish. But the
Copyrights Act 1957 and the Supreme Court in its various judgments has clearly
stipulated a procedure to revoke earlier assignment and transferring of
copyrights to somebody else subsequently. The author has to issue a notice to
the 1st assignee, giving 6 months time for reply. Depending on the reply the
author can take his next step. Where as in my father's copyrights matter he did
not even inform me orally of any such cancellation. ID claims that she has a
typed document of transfer of copyrights signed by my father on 5.1.2006.
Between 5.1.2006 and 30.5.2007, leave alone issuing a notice, he did not even
inform me orally.
My father who
assigned copyrights to me in his own handwriting, when he was relatively young
and physically fit did not require to cancel the 1st assignment when he was
totally dilapidated, almost bedridden and was counting his days. Another
important aspect of the matter is that I have printed the Xerox of my father's
document in his own works as early as 1995 and have been doing so from time to
time during his life time. Where as ID claims to possess a document after my
father's death and she has not мейд it public so far. ID tried to get my father's
complete works published in different languages by Telugu University
(Hyderabad: A.P: India) by paying them Rs. 6 Lakhs. I approached Telugu
University and apprised them of facts. On the advice of legal experts, they
stopped this project and returned ID's money to her. It is an incontrovertible
fact that ID's document is a forged and fraudulent document which does not
stand scrutiny before law. Court shall certainly award her exemplary
punishment. In all societies and times literature has been social wealth/public
property from time immemorial. It should not be used as a mask to grab share of
parental property illegally and unethically. I am committed to this cause/
ideal and appeal to the civilized society to strengthen my hands in this
endeavor. ID's younger brother Sri Mahendra Pratapgir is the lone legal heir
apparent of that family and keeping him in dark, she is squandering her
father's wealth in Telugu literature for her nasty propaganda.
FATHER PASSED
AWAY:
In 1997 when he
suffered the 1st heart attack he was half-dead. Dr.Sudhakar Reddy, cardiologist
of Mediciti Hospitals (Native of Warangal.A.P) performed angiogram and
diagnosed that he had blocks in arteries and one valve was damaged completely.
He advised open heart surgery. But ID averted it and got angioplasty performed.
His health declined rapidly since then and was leading the life of virtually an
invalid till he breathed his last. He suffered inexplicable mental and physical
torture for about a decade. During the last leg of his journey he was isolated
from his family completely. He was deserted by one and all in the literary
field. When his younger brother passed away, his younger sister passed away he
did not visit his ancestral home in his village and call on those families. He
became target of jealousy and animosity in the society. He became a victim of
false impression with the society that he was an aristocrat and rolling in
luxuries. Whereas, he was deprived of even his native vegetarian food for
decades together. As a silent and helpless witness to these painful happenings,
I was subject to untold mental agony.
In the later
half of March 2007 on one of my visits to him, I was aghast at his condition.
His entire body was swollen. His appearance was like that of a stuffed gunny
bag. I told him to get hospitalized. I told ID to rush him to a hospital. But
of no avail. On 30th may 2007 at about 11 pm I got a phone call from her"
Come soon/Serious" she said. As I entered at 11.15 pm "Go inside/he
is no more' she said.
* * One day
when swarms of lamps vanish, in the light of a lonely lamp I ask the dumb
pillars "Can't you liberate me from the disgust of this existence? I ask
those stand still forest flame trees
which blossom
flowers at that very place year after year
"can't you
rescue me?
I ask those
high roof tops and this Venetian furniture
which every one
feels are greater than me, "can't you rescue me from the disgust of this
existence?" All these answer in a melancholic voice "We have been
languishing since more than 100 years watching the same unchanging scenes we
are older prisoners than you are" (Janavamsham: Telugu: Seshendra: Page
80-81:1993: Translated by me)
My father's
first biography (in Hindi) titled "Rashtrendu Seshendra: Ashesh
Aayaam" by Dr.Vishranth Vasishth appeared in 1994. Touching upon these
very sensitive aspects of my father's life he commented in that book"SONE
KE PINJRE ME PANCHCHI" (A bird in a golden cage). Alarmed and agonized by
his rapidly declining health, as early as June 2002, in order to bring pressure
on ID, I gave a 2 cassettes long interview to Vijayaviharam of Janaharsha
group. Later on when I enquired about that interview they said that in the
raids conducted on their premises, they got destroyed.
I wanted to
rescue my father and bring him back home when he was in good health. Alas! At
last, I took him to the burial ground, laid him on the funeral pyre and
consigned him to flames and returned home all alone.
G.Satyaki S/o Late.G.Seshendra
Sharma
Hyderabad.A.P.INDIA
saatyaki@gmail.com ,
+91 94410 70985 , 7702964402
-Pardon Me Father!
I could not
rescue him from the clutches of that nymphomaniac and vampire. There may be an
exception or two but an average Indian woman desires from the depths of her
soul that her husband should live long and she should pass away before him. She
performs prayers and fasts on auspicious days for this purpose. She in spite of
being 3years elder to him did away with my father in a planned and premeditated
manner and I was a silent and helpless witness to it. He suffered 1st Heart
attack in November 1997. Cardiologists performed angiogram and advised open
heart surgery. Because there were blocks in vessels and one valve was damaged.
But she successfully thwarted it and without my knowledge or informing any one
got angioplasty done in Mediciti (Hyderabad: AP; India) her plan was to do away
with him and live long, and establish herself as his wife through his books. He
was succumbing to her blackmail. My overwhelming hunch is that she was
threatening him with social insult and humiliation if he parts ways with her.
Between 1997-2007, she played football with his body. He used to be hospitalized every now and then with swollen body and heart pain. Because of damaged valve pumping was impaired and water used to accumulate in the system. Every time I used to force her to hospitalize him. He used be in ICCU for a couple of
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