Kandukuri Veeresalingam Panthulu Garu

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[b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rao_Bahadur"]Rao Bahadur[/url] Kandukuri Veeresalingam[/b] (Telugu: కందుకూరి వీరేశలింగం) (16 April 1848 – 27 May 1919), also known as [b]Kandukuri Veeresalingham Pantulu[/b] (Telugu: కందుకూరి వీరేశలింగం పంతులు), was a social reformer of [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andhra_Pradesh"]Andhra Pradesh[/url]. He was born in an orthodox[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niyogi"]Niyogi[/url] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telugu_Brahmin"]Telugu Brahmin[/url] family. He is widely considered as the man who first brought about a renaissance in [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telugu_people"]Telugu people[/url] and [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telugu_language"]Telugu[/url]literature. He was influenced by the ideals of [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmo_Samaj"]Brahmo Samaj[/url] particularly those of [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keshab_Chandra_Sen"]Keshub Chunder Sen[/url]. He got involved in the cause of social reforms. In 1876 he started a Telugu journal and wrote the first prose for women. He encouraged education for women, and started a school in [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowlaiswaram"]Dowlaiswaram[/url] in 1874. He started a social organisation called [b]Hitakarini[/b] (Benefactor).[/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=sans-serif][size=3]
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[*][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandukuri_Veeresalingam#Brahmo_Samaj"]1 Brahmo Samaj[/url]
[*][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandukuri_Veeresalingam#Literature"]2 Literature[/url]
[*][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandukuri_Veeresalingam#Notes"]3 Notes[/url]
[*][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandukuri_Veeresalingam#External_links"]4 External links[/url]
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[b] [size=3][[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kandukuri_Veeresalingam&action=edit&section=1"]edit[/url]][/size]Brahmo Samaj[/b]
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In the [i]History of the Brahmo Samaj[/i], Sivanath Sastri writes Kandukuri Veeraselingam Pantulu, “He constructed the first Brahmo Mandir in the Andhra country at Rajahmundry in 1887. He constructed a Widows’ Home, a two storied building and a similar one for the Social Reform Association at Madras; he started the first theistic high school, the Hithakarini School at Rajahmundry in 1908; during the same year he willed away all his property for the benefit of Rajahmundry Widows’ Home and the school, and placed them under the management of an association, the Hithakarini Samaj. The movement spread from Rajahmundry to Cocanada (presently [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakinada"]Kakinada[/url]), Parlakimedi, Palakole, Narsapur, [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijayawada"]Vijayawada[/url] and [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenali"]Tenali[/url].”[/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=sans-serif][size=3]
He is also credited with the setting up of Brahmo Samaj at Bangalore.[/size][/font][/color]
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Veeresalingam panthulu is popularly called [i]Gadhya Thikkana[/i].[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandukuri_Veeresalingam#cite_note-0"][1][/url][/sup] He wrote about 100 books between 1869 and 1919[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandukuri_Veeresalingam#cite_note-tp-1"][2][/url][/sup] and introduced the essay, biography, autobiography and the novel into Telugu literature[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandukuri_Veeresalingam#cite_note-htclit-2"][3][/url][/sup] His [i]Satyavathi Charitam[/i] was the first social novel in Telugu. He wrote [i]Rajasekhara Charitamu[/i] inspired by Oliver Goldsmith’s [i]The Vicar of Wakefied[/i]. To him literature was an instrument to fight social evils. He was a poet of considerable renown.[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandukuri_Veeresalingam#cite_note-tp-1"][2][/url][/sup][/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=sans-serif][size=3]
He was also one of the members of the first Indian National Congress (INC) meeting held in 1885.[/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=sans-serif][size=3]
He died on 27 May 1919. A statue of his has been installed on Beach Road, Visakhapatnam. Really he did a great job for social reform. He formed an association for widows remarriage.[/size][/font][/color]

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Ye chotanunnaa...
mee padha kavithaa pravahaam..
samaajika rugmathala nirmoolanakai ...parithapinchi.
raaasina .. kavithalu... pasidi kaanthulu virajimmuthooo .
sanga samskaranalennoo.. lekkanalavi kaaaavu...
Varnanaatheetham..
chitikedu vetakaaram... lavalesantha sunnithathvam.. kalagalisi ...
"pogadaraa nee thallini.. Yechotanunna.. Telugu vaadivani " .. aaa padaalaku emicchi runam icchi theercahagalam..
"Kanyaasulkam" loni Gireesaaaanni maruvalemu..
Rajamahendravaraanike Vanne thecchina..meee prasthaanam..
" veeeresalingam panthulu gaaru " meeeru choopinchina maargadarsaka soothraalu... netitharam yuvatharam kaaryaroopam cheyagaligina...
Naagaraika samaajamu rangula kalala samudhaayamu gaa maardama thadhyam..