Seshendra Sharma- Oka Prasansa

Visionary
Poet of the Millennium

An Indian poet Prophet

Seshendra Sharma

October 20th, 1927 - May 30th, 2007

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Seshendra Sharma is one of the most
outstanding minds of modern Asia. He is the foremost of the Telugu poets today
who has turned poetry to the gigantic strides of human history and embellished
literature with the thrills and triumphs of the 20^th century. A
revolutionary poet who spurned the pedestrian and pedantic poetry equally, a
brilliant critic and a scholar of Sanskrit, this versatile poet has breathed a
new vision of modernity to his vernacular.Such minds place Telugu on the world
map of intellectualism. Readers conversant with names like Paul Valery,
Gauguin, and Dag Hammarskjold will have to add the name of Seshendra Sharma the
writer from India to that dynasty of
intellectuals.

Rivers and poets

Are veins and arteries

Of a country.

Rivers flow like poems

For animals, for birds

And for human beings-

The dreams that rivers dream

Bear fruit in the fields

The dreams that poets dream

Bear fruit in the people-

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The sunshine of my thought fell on the
word

And its long shadow fell upon the century

Sun was playing with the early morning flowers

Time was frightened at the sight of the martyr-

-
Seshendra Sharma

B.A: Andhra Christian College: Guntur:
A.P: India

B.L
: Madras University: Madras

Deputy Municipal Commissioner (37 Years)

Dept of Municipal Administration,
Government of Andhra Pradesh

Parents: G.Subrahmanyam (Father)
,Ammayamma (Mother)

Siblings: Anasuya,Devasena
(Sisters),Rajasekharam(Younger brother)

Wife: Mrs.Janaki Sharma

Children: Vasundhara , Revathi (Daughters),

Vanamaali ,Saatyaki (Sons)

Seshendra Sharma better known as
Seshendra is

a colossus of Modern Indian poetry.

His literature is a unique blend of the
best of poetry and poetics.

Diversity and depth of his literary
interests and his works

are perhaps hitherto unknown in Indian literature.

From poetry to poetics, from Mantra Sastra
to Marxist Politics his writings bear an unnerving pprint of his rare genius.

His scholar ship and command over Sanskrit
, English and Telugu Languages has facilitated his emergence as a towering personality of comparative literature in the 20^th
century world literature.

T.S.Eliot ,ArchbaldMacleish
and Seshendra Sharma are trinity of world poetry and Poetics.

His sense of dedication to the genre of art
he chooses to express himself and

the determination to reach the depths of
subject he undertakes to explore

place him in the galaxy of world poets /
world intellectuals.

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GunturuSeshendraSarma: an extraordinary poet-scholar

One of the ironies in literature is that

he came to be known more as a critic than a poet

HYDERABAD: An era of scholastic
excellence and poetic grandeur has come to an end in the passing away of
GunturuSeshendraSarma, one of the foremost poets and critics in Telugu
literature. His mastery over western literature and Indian `AlankaraSastra'
gave his works a stunning imagery, unparalleled in modern Indian works. One of
the ironies in literature is that he came to be known more as a critic than a
poet. The Central SahityaAkademi award was conferred on him for his work
`KaalaRekha' and not for his poetic excellence. The genius in him made him
explore `Kundalini Yoga' in his treatise on Ramayana in `Shodasi' convincingly.
His intellectual quest further made him probe `NaishadhaKaavya' in the backdrop
of `LalitaSahasraNaamavali', `SoundaryaLahari' and `Kama Kala Vilasam' in
`SwarnaHamsa', Seshendra saw the entire universe as a storehouse of images and
signs to which imagination was to make value-addition. Like Stephene Mallarme
who was considered a prophet of symbolism in French literature, SeshendraSarma
too believed that art alone would survive in the universe along with poetry. He
believed that the main vocation of human beings was to be artists and poets.
His `Kavisena Manifesto' gave a new direction to modern criticism making it a
landmark work in poetics. Telugus would rue the intellectual impoverishment
they suffered in maintaining a `distance' from him. Seshendra could have given
us more, but we did not deserve it! The denial of the Jnanpeeth Award to him
proves it

The Hindu

India's National Newspaper

Friday, Jun 01, 2007

Who Are The Legal Heirs of Seshendra Sharma ?

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The literary world is aware that my father Gunturu
Seshendra Sharma, eminent poet, litterateur and scholar-critic, died on 30th
may 2007. Ever since he expired, there has been no mention of his parents,
family members and other personal details in the news and in the articles about
him. Not only this, fictional lies are being spread and using money power one
shady lady is being propagated as his wife and so on. This has been causing me,
as his son, a great mental agony. That is why, through this article, I am
revealing certain fundamental truths to the literary field of this country and
the civilized society. I appeal to your conscience to uphold truth, justice and
values of our composite culture.

Seshendra Sharma's family members are: Parents:
Subrahmanyam Sharma, Ammaayamma- Wife: Janaki Daughters: Vasundhara, Revathi,
Sons: Vanamali, Saatyaki. Only these two are legal heirs of Seshendra Sharma,
socially and morally too.

Street Play and Circus: In 1972, away from the
civilized society, without the knowledge of parents and near and dear, in a far
flung village called Halebeed in Karnataka a circus, a street play was staged.
Let me make it clear that even after this street play my father did not divorce
my mother Mrs.G.Janaki legally. He never had even a faint intention of
committing such an uncivilized act. On the contrary, in all crucial Government
documents he nominated my mother as his legal heir from time to time. During
his long career as Municipal Commissioner with The Government of Andhra
Pradesh, he retired 3 times. His first retirement came in 1975 by way of
compulsory retirement for his anti establishment writings during Mrs. Gandhi's'
emergency. His second retirement came in 1983 when the then new chief minister
N.T. Rama Rao's government reduced the age of service from 58 to 55 years. The
third and final retirement in the year 1985 on attaining 58 years of age. On
all these occasions, in all the government documents, my father Seshendra
Sharma nominated my mother Mrs. Janaki as his legal heir. This is precisely why
the self contradictory 'second marriage' is a circus enacted away from the
society and Law does not recognize this type of street plays as marriage.

Lakshmi Parvathi in literature

N.T. Rama Rao, actor turned politician married Ms.
Lakshimi Parvathi in 1994 and subsequently in January 1995 he came to power for
the second time. She used to act as an extra constitutional power and run the
matters of government and the party. She developed her own coterie of cohorts
and started dominating the party. After NTR was toppled by his own son- in-law,
most of them parted ways with her. And the remaining touts left her for good
the day NTR breathed his last. Ms.Indira Dhanrajgir has been playing the same
role in Telugu literature over a period of more than 3 decades. In the guise of
literature she developed her own coterie of lumpens with extra literary and
money mongering elements - Tangirala Subba Rao, Velichala Kondala
RAo(Editor:Jayanthi) Cheekolu Sundarayya(A.G.'s Office, Hyderabad et al).

There are a couple[ of dissimilarities between these
two instances. After the demise of NTR, L.P's coterie of cohorts disappeared
once and for all. Whereas, in Indira Dhanrajgir's case new lumpens are entering
the field with the passage of time. Squandering her late father's wealth, she
is roping in new touts. Since NTR's wife Basava Tarakam passed away in 1984 and
since he was old and sick NTR's marriage with LP has ethical basis and is legal
completely. Whereas I.D's is neither ethical nor legal. Hence it is a street
play. This is the reason why after my father's death she has been spending
money on a larger scale and indulging in false publicity and propaganda. Bh.
Krishna Murthy, Sadasiva Sharma (The then Editor of Andhra Prabha:Telugu Daily,
presently with Hindi Milap) Chandrasekhara Rao(Telugu lecturer: Methodist
Degree College) etc. are indulging in all sorts of heinous acts to prop up I.D
as my father's wife.

My father passed away on 30 May 2007. When our family
was in grief and I was performing the 11 day ritual as per my mother's wish,
the above mentioned Sadasiva Sharma went to Municipal Office on 4th June,
created ruckus, played havoc telling them that he is from the Prime Minister's
Office , \u043c\u0435\u0439\u0434 some 'senior officials' make phone calls to the officials
concerned and got my father's death certificate forcibly issued. When the
entire family was mourning the death of the family head, a stranger and a
lumpen S.S -Why did he collect my father's death certificate forcibly from the
municipal authorities? Whom did he collect it for?

THREE NAMES OF THE SAME PERSON IN 3 DECADES

This is perhaps for the first time that the name of a
lady appears in 3 forms at a time. Perhaps in 1970, in my father's collection
of poems"PAKSHULU her name appeared As Rajkumari Indira Devi Dhanrajgir.
In 2006 she published a fake version of Kamaostav(Rewritten by a muffian Called
Chandrasekhara Rao) . In this book her name appears as R.I.D.D. Prior to 1970
in Maqdoom Mohiuddeen's(Renowned Urdu Poet) anthology of poetry 'Bisath
-E-Raks', in Urdu as well as Hindi , at the end of two poems her name appears
as Kumari Indira Dhanrajgir. On 15th June 2007 A.P state cultural affairs
department and Telugu University jointly held my father's memorial meeting. I.D
hijacked this meeting by issuing her own commercial advertisements in English and
Telugu dailies. In these advertisements her name appeared as Smt. Indira Devi
Seshendra Sharma and again in the commercial public notices \u043c\u0435\u0439\u0434 by her in the
month of November 2007her name appeared as Rajkumari devi etc. Why does her
name appear in different forms on different occasions? Will I.D explain? Will
Sadasiva Sharma clarify, who forcibly took my father's death certificate after
four days of his death? Or will Bh.Krishna Murthy clarify?

If I.D has even an iota of regard, respect for or
faith in love, or relation, the institution of marriage, immediately
after'Halebeed Circus', she would have used my father's family sir name and her
name would have appeared as Gunturu Indira. Since she was conscious of her goal
during all times and conditions she did not take such a hasty and mindless step
of change of her name.

WHERE DOES THE REAL SECRET LIE? Her life is totally
illegal, anti-social and immoral. I.D's father performed her marriage with SRikishenSeth,
Nephew of the then Prime minister to Nizam, Maharaja Kishen pershad in 1945. On
the day of marriage itself I.D beat SrikeshenSeth up and ran away from him. She
did not stop at that. She propagated among his friends and relatives and near
and dear that he was not enough of a man and unfit for conjugal/ marital life.
She filed a divorce case against him and dragged it till 1969/70. Lion's share
of her husband's life got evaporated and was sapped completely by then. His
parents used to approach I.D's father and plead with him to prevail upon his
daughter, put sense into her head and see that she either lives with their son
or dissolves the marriage legally so that they can remarry off their son. But
I.D did not heed. Raja Dhanrajgir after getting disgusted with her nasty
activities stipulated a mandatory condition in his will. He stated that I.D
would be entitled to get a share of his property only if she is married.

This is the reason why ID who has no respect for the
institution of marriage or regard or desire for marital life , in the guise of
love and love poetry inflicted indelible blemish on the institution of marriage
which is unprecedented in the literary history of the world. After my father's
death she has been indulging in more rigorous false publicity along with her
coterie of touts.

KAMOSTAV:STORY OF ID'S SOUL:

With this novel Kamostav, father's literary life came
to an end for good. He did not produce literary works worth mentioning in his
later phase of life. During those days he asked for my opinion on that novel. I
told him clearly that it lacks the form and content of a novel- it does not
have a story line, plot, sequences, characters and eventually a message which
every novel gives. Hence it is a trash. Several people went to court and got
its publication in a weekly stopped. ID got this very trash rewritten
completely by Chandrasekhara Rao and printed it. This kind of heinous
development has never taken place in the recorded history of Telugu literature
till date. A writing which brought disrepute to my father in the literary field
and isolated him in the society, why did she get it rewritten by somebody and
publish it claiming copyright to be hers? What is her motive? What is her aim?
That is why Kamotsav is ID's biography, story of her inner soul.

SESHENDRA'S COPYRIGHTS:

My father gifted away copyrights of his entire works
along with their translations to me by way of birth day gift to me on
2.12.1989. Since then I have published several of his works during his lifetime
itself. Kamostav, the version that is secretly \u043c\u0435\u0439\u0434 available is the dirty work
of cheapsters and lumpens under the leadership of ID. It is much worse than
violation of copyrights. That is the reason why I have been reluctant to take
action so far. If she and her debased henchmen try to violate copyrights of my
father's works bequeathed to me, I shall take exemplary legal action against
them.

ID \u043c\u0435\u0439\u0434 2 public notices to the effect that my father
cancelled all his earlier transfer of copyrights and retransferred all his
rights to her. This is a palace intrigue in the modern era in our civilized
society.

WHAT DOES LAW SAY ABOUT COPYRIGHTS?

An author can transfer copyrights of his works to any
one as per her/his wish. But the Copyrights Act 1957 and the Supreme Court in
its various judgments has clearly stipulated a procedure to revoke earlier
assignment and transferring of copyrights to somebody else subsequently. The
author has to issue a notice to the 1st assignee, giving 6 months time for
reply. Depending on the reply the author can take his next step. Where as in my
father's copyrights matter he did not even inform me orally of any such
cancellation. ID claims that she has a typed document of transfer of copyrights
signed by my father on 5.1.2006. Between 5.1.2006 and 30.5.2007, leave alone
issuing a notice, he did not even inform me orally.

My father who assigned copyrights to me in his own
handwriting, when he was relatively young and physically fit did not require to
cancel the 1st assignment when he was totally dilapidated, almost bedridden and
was counting his days. Another important aspect of the matter is that I have
printed the Xerox of my father's document in his own works as early as 1995 and
have been doing so from time to time during his life time. Where as ID claims
to possess a document after my father's death and she has not \u043c\u0435\u0439\u0434 it public so
far. ID tried to get my father's complete works published in different
languages by Telugu University (Hyderabad: A.P: India) by paying them Rs. 6 Lakhs.
I approached Telugu University and apprised them of facts. On the advice of
legal experts, they stopped this project and returned ID's money to her. It is
an incontrovertible fact that ID's document is a forged and fraudulent document
which does not stand scrutiny before law. Court shall certainly award her
exemplary punishment. In all societies and times literature has been social
wealth/public property from time immemorial. It should not be used as a mask to
grab share of parental property illegally and unethically. I am committed to
this cause/ ideal and appeal to the civilized society to strengthen my hands in
this endeavor. ID's younger brother Sri Mahendra Pratapgir is the lone legal
heir apparent of that family and keeping him in dark, she is squandering her
father's wealth in Telugu literature for her nasty propaganda.

FATHER PASSED AWAY:

In 1997 when he suffered the 1st heart attack he was
half-dead. Dr.Sudhakar Reddy, cardiologist of Mediciti Hospitals (Native of
Warangal.A.P) performed angiogram and diagnosed that he had blocks in arteries
and one valve was damaged completely. He advised open heart surgery. But ID
averted it and got angioplasty performed. His health declined rapidly since
then and was leading the life of virtually an invalid till he breathed his
last. He suffered inexplicable mental and physical torture for about a decade.
During the last leg of his journey he was isolated from his family completely.
He was deserted by one and all in the literary field. When his younger brother
passed away, his younger sister passed away he did not visit his ancestral home
in his village and call on those families. He became target of jealousy and
animosity in the society. He became a victim of false impression with the
society that he was an aristocrat and rolling in luxuries. Whereas, he was
deprived of even his native vegetarian food for decades together. As a silent
and helpless witness to these painful happenings, I was subject to untold
mental agony.

In the later half of March 2007 on one of my visits to
him, I was aghast at his condition. His entire body was swollen. His appearance
was like that of a stuffed gunny bag. I told him to get hospitalized. I told ID
to rush him to a hospital. But of no avail. On 30th may 2007 at about 11 pm I
got a phone call from her" Come soon/Serious" she said. As I entered
at 11.15 pm "Go inside/he is no more' she said.

* * One day when swarms of lamps vanish, in the light
of a lonely lamp I ask the dumb pillars "Can't you liberate me from the
disgust of this existence? I ask those stand still forest flame trees

which blossom flowers at that very place year after
year

"can't you rescue me?

I ask those high roof tops and this Venetian furniture

which every one feels are greater than me, "can't
you rescue me from the disgust of this existence?" All these answer in a
melancholic voice "We have been languishing since more than 100 years
watching the same unchanging scenes we are older prisoners than you are"
(Janavamsham: Telugu: Seshendra: Page 80-81:1993: Translated by me)

My father's first biography (in Hindi) titled
"Rashtrendu Seshendra: Ashesh Aayaam" by Dr.Vishranth Vasishth
appeared in 1994. Touching upon these very sensitive aspects of my father's
life he commented in that book"SONE KE PINJRE ME PANCHCHI" (A bird in
a golden cage). Alarmed and agonized by his rapidly declining health, as early
as June 2002, in order to bring pressure on ID, I gave a 2 cassettes long
interview to Vijayaviharam of Janaharsha group. Later on when I enquired about
that interview they said that in the raids conducted on their premises, they
got destroyed.

I wanted to rescue my father and bring him back home
when he was in good health. Alas! At last, I took him to the burial ground,
laid him on the funeral pyre and consigned him to flames and returned home all
alone.

G.Satyaki S/o
Late.G.Seshendra Sharma

Hyderabad.A.P.INDIA

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Pardon Me Father!

I could not rescue him from the clutches of that
nymphomaniac and vampire. There may be an exception or two but an average
Indian woman desires from the depths of her soul that her husband should live
long and she should pass away before him. She performs prayers and fasts on
auspicious days for this purpose. She in spite of being 3years elder to him did
away with my father in a planned and premeditated manner and I was a silent and
helpless witness to it. He suffered 1st Heart attack in November 1997. Cardiologists
performed angiogram and advised open heart surgery. Because there were blocks
in vessels and one valve was damaged. But she successfully thwarted it and
without my knowledge or informing any one got angioplasty done in Mediciti
(Hyderabad: AP; India) her plan was to do away with him and live long, and
establish herself as his wife through his books. He was succumbing to her
blackmail. My overwhelming hunch is that she was threatening him with social
insult and humiliation if he parts ways with her.

Between 1997-2007, she played football with his body.
He used to be hospitalized every now and then with swollen body and heart pain.
Because of damaged valve pumping was impaired and water used to accumulate in
the system. Every time I used to force her to hospitalize him. He used be in
ICCU for a couple of days and recover marginally. After each visit to hospital
he was getting debilitated gradually. He was put on wheel chair. He was
virtually under house arrest. He was not allowed to speak to friends and family
members. Visitors were kept away. He was taking Lasix (Tablet: is a diuretic
that is used to treat fluid accumulation, caused by heart failure, cirrhosis,
chronic kidney failure, and nephrotic syndrome.) to flush out water accumulated
in his body. This creates a painful dilemma in me whether my interference in
his health matters was just. As his son it was my moral duty to protect him.
But I sometimes feel if I were not to interfere she would have put him to death
long ago and thus he would have escaped from physical and mental torture quite
early.

Towards perhaps end of the month of March she withdrew
medication. He got swollen suddenly and that condition continued till the last
day i.e. 30th may 2007. Each time I visited I used to tell that witch to take
him to hospital. But after a couple of visits I got convinced that she made up
her mind this time to do away with him. I requested a bastard who was feigning
to be a friend of mine, who incidentally happens to be a legal luminary of this
region to send a doctor friend to that place and ascertain the exact condition
of his health. But of no avail.

I kept on telling him to come out of that place and
lead a normal and healthy life. Her blackmail gained an upper hand and I lost
in my efforts to restore health to him and bring him back to civilized society.
O God pardon me for not being able to outmanoeuvre her machinations. Pardon me
father.