Friday, August 8, 2008

Dedications

V.R.Narla dedicated his books to Devulapalli Krishna Sastri, V.M.Tarkunde, M.N.Roy, Prem nath Bazaz, N.Innaiah etc.
Narla has big family with eight children. All of them are doctors and except the eldest daughter Ms Sarada, all are settled in USA.
Dr Meenakshi is in Phoenix, USA. Dr Mohan das is in New York and he is an outstanding researcher in cell biology. Dr Durga Das is cardiologist in Detroit, USA. Dr Lakshman Das is in Richmond, Virginia. Dr Uma, Dr Chandra and Dr Rama are all in New York State , practicing doctors.
Narla participated in cultural, reformative and rationalist movements.He was advisor to the government of Andhra Pradesh on cultural affairs during 1982-85 when N T Rama rao was chief minister.
Narla encouraged intercaste marriages and three of his children followed his advice through intercaste weddings.
His wife Sulochana faithfully kept his library intact and helped him during crisis periods. The library was donated to B R Ambedkar Open University in Hyderabad, India. It is available for public to do research.
In the beginning of his journalist career Narla was associated with few periodicles like Congress, Jothi, Prajamitra and contributed articles to Bharati, Krishna Patrika.
Narla`s writings are published in 12 volumes( 4 in English).
He was honored Andhra, Nagarjuna, Sri Venkateswara Universities for his outstanding contributions in Journalism and humanist thought.

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