Vemana

Author: V R Narla
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
Year: 1997
Language: English
Pages: 93
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8126003324

Description

This book brings into bold relief every facet of the many-splendoured personality of poet and philosopher Vemana.

A Poet of the people, a philosopher of freedom and equality, and a fighting saint, Vemana was unique in many ways. Though less well-known than some other great saints of Mediaeval India like Kabir, Nanak and Chaitanya, his teachings has much contemporary relevance, for he was a dreamer of One World and of the Brotherhood of Man.

The Writer of this monograph, Sri V R Narla, a veteran journalist and an author in Telugu and English, brings into bold relief every facet of the many-splendoured personality of Vemana.

As he did earlier in his monograph on Veeresalingam, Sri Narla provides this too with Glossary and Notes.

Contents

Foreword

Not Born for Death

In the Lap of Legends

Feeble and Uncertain Lamps

"He was a man"

Double Night of Darkness

The Poet Spoke

Nature’s Philosopher

True and Rare Genius

Translations

Bibliography

Glossary and Notes