Noted poet Goreti Venkanna wins ‘Central Sahitya Akademi Award’ for 2021
CM KC Rao greets the poet on the occasion
Hyderabad, Dec 30: Noted poet and Telangana Legislative Council member Goreti Venakanna has won the ‘Central Sahitya Akademi Award’ for 2021.
Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao conveyed his greetings to Venkanna for getting the prestigious Central Sahitya Akademi Award for 2021. Mr Rao in a release said ‘Vallankitaalam’ , a compilation of Venkanna’s poetry winning the Central Sahitya Academy Award is worth hailing.
He said the poetry of Goreti Venkanna which unveiled the day-to-day problems of daily life with a touch of social philosophy before the everyone’ eyes has mirrored the universal man’s pain.
Hailing Gorati Venkanna for beautifully unveiling the umbilical relationship between human life and nature, relationship between man and other animals and birds, the Chief Minister said through his literature Gorati Venkanna, made the scent of Telangana soil get universal recognition.
He said Gorati Venkanna during the separate Telangana Statehood movement had played a key role through his songs and literature.
Mr Rao said the Central Sahitya Akademi award to Gorati Venkanna’s literature is an award given to the living philosophy of a common Telangana man.