Ravindranath Jandhyala
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Formerly Professor , GVPCE(A) |
| Location | Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India |
| Introduction | M.A. in English from Acharya Nagarjuna University and Ph.D. from University of Hyderabad. Literature, History and Philosophy are my favourite Subjects. Violence in any form, Religious and market fundamentalism and dogmatism are my aversions. I believe that the earth is meant not just for humans but also other creatures.Published a book of poetry " SOW THE SPRING" (2009)and "RUSSIAN GEETALU" ( trans.)in Telugu in 2010. Also published "DOVE AND THE MOTHER EARTH"(Poetry in English,2011)and EDA LOTHULLO( In The Depths of Heart), translations of some English poets in 2012, NALLA KALUVA( The Black Lotus,2013) SUBURBAN SPARROWS(2014) and Empathy as Life(2018). |
| Interests | Reading, Music & Meditation |
| Favorite Movies | Great Dictator, Ten Commandments, Gladiator, Troy, An Inconvenient Truth, 11 th hour |
| Favorite Music | Ghantasala, Mangalampalli, MS Subbulakshmi, Kunaikudi Vaidyanathan, Hariprasad Chaurasia |
| Favorite Books | The Enchantress Florence by Salman Rushdie, The Shape of the Beast by Arundhati Roy, Disgrace by Coetzee, Naipaul's Magics Seeds, Amitav Ghosh's, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide and his trilogy Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke and Flood of Fire, Chinua Achebe's No Longer at Ease, Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat, The, powers and prospects by Noam Chomsky, Snow by Orhan Pamuk, The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai, Mahaprasthanam by Sri Sri, Musings by Chalam, Amrutham kurisina Raatri by Tilak, AsamarthuniJeevayatra by Gopichand, Viswambhara by C. Narayana Reddy The Ideas of Russell, Marx, Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Radha Krishnan and have exercised a deep influence on my thought process. |