Poetry

Yuga Kavi\'Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, \'acollossus and immortal of literature, who is a trendsetter both inpoetry and criticism and occupies a place of crucial importance in thedevelopment and evolution of Modern Indian literature, is from Nellore.His books have been translated into English, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali,Kannada, and Greek\'.He is the only person to have been nominated for Nobel prize for his contribution to literary field from India.West Bengal government conferred him with "\'Rashtrendu"(Moon of the Nation).Telugu University conferred Honorary D.Litt on him in 1994.He received "Kalidas Samman" award from Madhya Pradhesh government.He won Central Sahitya Akademi fellowship in 1999.The other important awards Seshendra received are ‘Subrahmanya Bharati Ekta Award’ from the Hindi Academy, Rashtriya Sanskriti Puraskar’, ‘Ugadi Puraskar’, ‘Tilak Award’ and ‘Sahitya Ratna 2001’ from Sri Ram Sahitya Mandal, Himachal Pradesh. He has been nominated as a member to the ‘Kendriya Hindi Samithi’ by Prime Minister of India. He was selected for Hamsa Award, in 2004-05, by the Govt. of AP.
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Seshendra’s deep scholarship in Vedas, Upanishads and Kavyas hasplaced him in a unique position among the scholarly stallwarts of thecountry.His Magnum Opus ‘Naa Desham, Naa Prajalu’(‘My Country, My People’ in English, ‘Meri Dharti, Mere Log’in Hindiand Urdu ) brought Seshendra prominence as one of the outstanding poetsof India.Epics like ADHUNIK MAHABHARATHAM, JANAVAMSAM Signalledhis arrival on the Indian literary scene clearly establishing him as amajor voice of India. Added to this are his books of criticism "SHODASI"(A TANTRIC COMMENTARY OF VALMIKI’S RAMAYAN) SWARNA HAMSA (A TANTRIC COMMENTARY OF HARSHA Bhatta"s naishadhiya charitam) and KAVI SENA MANIFESTO (ADHINIK KAVYA SASTRA) .

During British period, \'Nellore\' was the only education center in the regions that constituted the current day Andhra Pradesh.
The main entertainment in the region is movies and related activities. S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, one of the India\'s top singers hailed from Nellore. Famous telugu lyrics writer Acharya Atreya is from this region. Pattabi Rami Reddy,a poet and director from Nellore wrote Ragala Dozen (A Dozen Melodies),a collection that recorded his observations in Madras and Nellore. Healso produced a Telugu film, Pellinaati Pramanalu, the National awardwinner, and directed films Samskara, Chandamarutha, Sringaramasa, andDevara Kaadu.[9]. Nellore also is place of many yesteryear telugu actors like Rajanala and Ramana Reddy.