Complete writings of Mr V.R.Narla ( Narla Venkateswararao 1908-1985)

Most of his writings in English and Telugu were brought out by his family members during 2008. The total volumes are 12. Five volumes are in English and 7 volumes are in Telugu. They are edited by Mr Velaga Venkatappaiah, retired librarian from Tenali, Andhra Pradesh, India.
The volumes are priced each at Rupees 200.( $ 5) They are available with Visalandhra publishing house, 4.1.435,Vignan bhavan, Bank Street, Hyderabad 500001, Andhra Pradesh, India.

TELUGU
Volume - 1 Pages 448
Pp 448 includes photos of Narla
7 Telugu books are included in the 1st volume:

They are:
1.Neti Russia ( Russia Today) 1934 PP 102
2. Swadesi Samsthanalu ( Native states) 1938 pp 154
3. Austria aakramana ( occupation of Austria) 1938 p149
4. Czeck raajya vichedam ( breaking Czek empire) 1939
5. Palastena ( Palastine) 1939 pp 74
6. Kadambam ( essays mislenney) 1945 Yuva publication

TELUGU
Volume - 2 Pages 448
Kotha Gadda (plays)
17 items covered – Published in 1947, 1956
Maataa Manthi : Pichchapaati = Kotha Paathaa(essays)
43 items covered – Published in 1951, 1975
Kadambam – Published in 1976( essays)




TELUGU
Volumes - 3 Pages 448
Jabali –(play)Published in 1974
Seetha Josyam ( play) - Published in 1979
Narakamalo Harischandrudu (play) – Published in 1982
Hiranyakasipuni Hatya(play)– Published in 1990-1991
Pancharaatram (Drowpadi) (play) - Published in 1990-1991
Kadambam –Chenukulu -Churakalu - Published in 1945, 1976.

TELUGU
Volume - 4 Pages 448
Vemana – critical research work13 items covered
Vemana : (writings of Foreigners) Paschchatyulu – Grantha Parichayam
Veeresalingam (monograph)
Gurajada (monograph)

Narlavari maata(poems)- Published in 1956
Navayugaalabata (Padya Samputi)(poems) - Published in 1974, 1984
Jagannatakam (Geethalu : Geyalu) – Published in 1957
Maavooru (Geya Kaavyam) in Andhra Prabha
Vemana - Published in 1989
Veeresalingam – Published in 1985
Gurajada – Publisehd in 1982

TELUGU
Volume - 5 Pages 448
Culture and Arts (Samskruthi Kalalu) – 27 items covered
Language, Literature (Bhasha Sahityalu) - 18 items covered
Scientific Knowledge – Saastra Vijnanam - 13 items covered
Religion 1 – Natural (Matam – 1 : Saadharanam) - 15 items covered
Religion 2 – Upanishattulu (Matam : Upanishattulu) – 23 items covered
Religion 3 – Truth about Geetha) (Matam : Geetha Rahasyam) – 24 items covered.
Creative Literature – (Shrujanaathmaka Saahityam) – 8 items covered

TELUGU
Volumes - 6 & 7 Pages 448
Editorials in Andhra Prabha, Daily 1942-59
Editorials in Andhra Jyothi Daily 1960-75
Essays in Andhra Prabha Weekly
Essays in Andhra Jyothi Monthly 1946-47

ENGLISH
Volume : 8 Pages 448
The Truth about the Gita – 21 items covered
An Essay on the Upanishads – 22 items covered
God’s, Goblins and Men – 165 items covered

ENGLISH
Volume - 9 Pages 448
WORKS OF NARLA
Plays on Ramayana
The Last Word on Ramayana
Part-1 Jabali Part-2 Seetha’s Destiny (Seetha Josyam)

Preface to Jabali by V.R. Narla
1. Myth and History; 2. Popular Versions, The Original Text; 3. Food Habits; 4. Drinks; 5. Seethas’s Abduction; Incongruities; 7. How much did Valmiki Write?; 8. Concept of Incarnation;
9. The Three Texts; 10. Interpolations; 11. Valmiki; 12. Rama’s Image; 13. Valmiki’s Rama 14. Human, Not Divine; 15. Jabali; 16. The Play, Jabali; 17. Jabali – A one Act Play

5. The Last Word on Ramayana Part – 2 Seetha’s Destiny
How much of Ramayana is True ?; Which is Janasthana? Where was Lanka?; Who were the Rakshasas?; Who were the Rishis?; Rama’s Role in the Intrigues of Rishis; Weapons in Ramayana; Seetha and Rama; Epilogue; Annexure -1 Dasharatha Jathaka; Killing People who Bore on Enmity.
Why did I Decline the Sahitya Academi Award? – V.R. Narla

6. Gods, Goblins and Men (thoughts of Narla)

New Religion; Only one Life; True and False; “No God, No Heaven” ; Uddalaka; Can any Religion be Wholly New?; Caste and Equality; Art Symbols and Motifs; Folk Tales; Indian Writers; The World of Indian Writers; The Indian Press; Soul’s Habitation; Soul’s Habitation; Promotions and Depromotions in Heven; Chauvinism; Philosophic Doubt; Indian Masses; Swaminatha Iyer; Three Questions; Life Span; Freedom and Justice; Puranas; Stury of Technology; Supreme Art; the Elusive Gandi; Cooking As an Art; Our New Thugs and Pindaris; Death; Caste and Islam; Duggal; Bhaktiyoga; The Doctrine of Avatar; Works as Worship; In Writing History; Religious Wars; Vedic Rishis : Their Child Mind; Jainism; Double Tragedy; Glory of Great Britain; Ghurye; Frozen Mind; A Good Meal; End of Man’s Efforts; Vestiges of Tribalism; Vedanta and Marxism; Unexamined Life; God and Devil; Marx and Engles; Philosophy; Tatya Tope; Religion; Systematic Thinking; An Archaeologist; False Prophets; Mind; Kitchen Religion; Rammohan; Magic; Indian Independence; Nirmal Kumar Bose; Russian Literature; Hindu Immortal; Revision of Scriptures; Idol Worship; A Journalist; Realism; Lal Ded; Death’s Arrival; Gandhi’s Humanism; Past Births; The Karma Doctrine; Early Indian Religions; History and Mythology; Tara Chand; Nehru’s Blind Spot; Nehru, the Writer; Good and Evil; Man’s Place in the Universe; Great Truths; Angel and Animal; India’s Oldest Philosophers; Why no Herodotus? Leisure; Popular Culture; Being and Becoming; God Should be Grateful; Sex and Sin; We and They; Thought and Action; V.O.C. Pillai; Man, A Part of Humanity; The Ultimate Prophet; Cyrus; Upanishadic Philosophy; Scientific Revolution; Biography of Religion; Atheism; Soul and Spirit; Ethics; Higher than Newton; Man’s Kingdom; Editor; Tulsidas; Rama and Seetha; Religion; Test of Leadership; Double Strategist; Thought and Action;
Miracle Play; Lenin; Two Schools; John Dewey (1859 – 1952); Atomic Theory; Laughing Philosopher; Chekhov; Sycophancy;
Descent From Heaven; Two Major Steps in Civilization; Without Quotation Marks; British Sense of Humour; Kshetrayya; Truth and Myth; Gifts of Science; Madhusudan Das (1848-1934) Religion and Nationalism; Nehru’s Economic Thinking; Art of Biography; Lending Books; Absolute Ethics; Insights and Blind Spots; Science; Indian Temperament; Khajuraho; Philosophy and Science; Indian Elite; Plekhanov; Ambedkar; We and Our Literature; Jawaharlal Nehru; Jayaprakash Narayan; Bread and Freedom; Religious Susceptibilities; Politics and Political Office; History; Crossing The Floor; Bread and Circus; Going Back; Desire for Office; Religious Philosophy; Power Without Knowledge; Truth, Scientists and Religion; Trotsky; Time is Money; Hinduism Opposed to Equality; Science and Philosopy; Scriptures; If Rationalism; Science and Superstition; Collin Davies; Afghanistan; Science; The Only True Quest; Dharmaraja; The Killing of Sambhuka; God Working Overtime; Throughout History; The Ultimate Sanction of All Religions; Ganges Water; Pursuit of Happiness; Rationalism and Religion; Life and Death; New China; Revelation; Sundhindranath Datta; Humanism; Religion; Ghosts; Khruschev; and 146 items covered.

ENGLISH

Volume - 10 Pages 448
WORKS OF NARLA
Writings on Culture
Traditional Indian Culture, Poverty of Intellectualism in India. East & West : Myth of Dichotomy,
Man and His World .
1. Traditional Indian Culture (Part one : India and The World)
Part Two : State and Statesmen;
Part Three : Life, Language and Literature
Part Four : Art and Science
2. Indian Culture : Its caste Complexion
3. Poverty of Intellectualism in India
4. East and West : Myth or Dichotomy
5. Articles on Culture
6. Gods, Goblins and Men
7. Man and His World
25 items covered.

Published in 1969, 1978, 1979, 1981.

ENGLISH

Volume – 11
WORKS OF NARLA
Writings on Literature
Vemana : Through Western Eyes, Vemana (1969), Veeresalingam (1969), Gurazada (1979) and Men and His World (1984)
1. Vemana : Through Western Eyes
2. Vemana : A Monograph
3. Veeresalingam : A Monograph
4. Gurazada : A Monograph
5. Man and His World
93 items covered.

ENGLISH

Volume - 12
WORKS OF NARLA
Miscellaneous Writings
Man and His world, Seminar Papers, Essays, Parliamentary Debates, Letters, Diaries, Notes .

1. Man and His World
79 items covered.
2. Essays and Seminar Papers
3. Parliamentary Debates
4. Letters of Shri Narla
5. Diaries of Narla
6. Notes of Narla on Asura India


Narla Venkateswararao ( V.R.Narla) dedicated his writings to various persons. Here are the details:
Dedications:

V.R.Narla dedicated his books to various persons:

1. Neti Russia (Russia Today)1934
Dedicated to his peda nayana ( elder brother of his father)
Venkata ramanna.

2. Swadesi Samsthanaalu (Native States)1938
dedicated to Mother and father

3. Austria akramana (occupation of Austria) 1938
dedicated to: N.G.Acharya, writer, journalist

4. Palastina 1938(Palaestine)
dedicated to:Surapaneni Venkataratnam
Yarlagadda Venkatakrishnarao

5. Kadambam(Mislleny) 1945 and 1976
dedicated to: Sarada, chandrakala,Meenaakshi,Uma,Rama(daughters)



Eldest Daughter Kolli Sarada

6. Kothagadda (telugu plays)
dedicated to Gurajada Apparao

















7. Pichaapaati-Maataa Manthi-Kotha Paatha
Dedicated to Mohandas, Durgadas, Lakshman das (sons)

8. Jaabaali ,Telugu play
dedicated to: Devulapalli Krishna Sastri

















9. Seetha Josyam (Telugu play)
dedicated to: Vidwan Viswam

10. Narakamlo Harischandrudu (Telugu play)
dedicated to. Dr.N.Innaiah















11. Vemana (research work)
Dedicated to: Gorrepati Venkatasubbaiah Pandit

















12. Gurajada ,critical study
dedicated to Krishna Kripalani


















13. Navayugaala Baata (poems)
dedicated to: sulochana (wife)

14. Moodu Dasaabaalu (thirty years of editorials)
dedicated to:Mutnuri Krishnarao
Khasa subbarao













15. The Truth about the Gita
dedicated to D.D.Kosambi














16. Gods,Goblins and Men
dedicated to: all humanists of all nations and all times.

17. Indian culture, its caste complexion
dedicated to M N Roy and Ram Manohar Lohia

















18. Poverty of intellectualism in India
dedicated to: Prem Nath Bazaz

19. East and West: Myth of dichotomy
dedicated to: Niranjan Dhar

20. Man and his world
dedicated to: V.M.Tarkunde











21. Veeresalingam (critical study)
dedicated to Prof N G Ranga