Chandamama Stories- Illustrated Stories of Infotainment for Children & Adults (Part-6)

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JONNALAGADDA NARAYANAMURTHY

I was bom in 1942 at Ramachandrapuram, East Godavari district, AP, in a family with literary background. My grandfather, Sri Pulagurtha Ramarao was an Ashtavadhani and "Satavadhani and also a recipient of Mahakavi title. My father Somaraju (given in adoption to Jonnalagadda family), was also a poet of his own standing. Smt. Mahalakshmi was my mother. I grew up at Dowtaiswaram and Rajahmundry under caring grandparents who made my childhood pleasant.

After post-graduation from the Andhra University with first class in 1964, RBI recruited me as a probationary officer and laid foundation to my long bariking career. In 1971, that great institution placed my services with IDB1, then its own wing, supervising industrial development in the country as an apex body.

In IDBI, my career graph grew upwards. I reached the top management position of Chief General Manager and retired in 2003 as the Director of JNIDB, its own training outfit set up for upgrading the skills of its own executives as well as those from other banks and financial institutions in the country. My experience and interactions in the institute stood me in good stead to sharpen my skills needed for a writer.

Writing to Chandamama is a dream come true for me made possible, early, by the encouragement I received from my own younger brother Dr. J. R. Rao a novelist famous by the name "Vasundhara who wrote countless stories for children in Chandamama. Later, it was Mr. Dasari Subrahmanyam a wizard and the main stay working in editorial department of Chandamama whose writing skills took the magazine to new heights in tune with the desired objectives of the promoters.

I am also a regular contributor to the articles appearing under the caption 'Antaryami in Eenadu Daily which deal with subtleties of spirituality, Dharma, and individual development.

I thank the publishers for arranging this translation of stories originally written in Telugu.

Smt. RAJAKUMARI JONNALAGADDA-KANDUKURI

Rajakumari, an educationist and a specialist in computer appilcations, has a flair for art, music and literature that had won recognition. She has made several translations of stories and articles between the languages-English, Telugu and Hindi for magazines, and websites. Being the daughter of the Vasundhara couple, she has especially translated several works of Vasundhara into English. She herself has written short stories that were published in popular offline as well as online Telugu magazines. In addition, she has written and published articles in English magazines as well as a few blog sites. She presently works as a freelance editor and translator.

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