Velcheru Narayana Rao born and brought up in Srikakulam District, Andhra Pradesh State completed his education in USA and working as a Telugu Professor in Emory Universities, he wrote many Number of Books on Telugu Traditions and Telugu literatures and more.“To command nearly a thousand years of a literary tradition

Velcheru Narayana Rao is a Telugu Professor in Emory University, his Contribution to understanding Indian cultural history, literary production and intellectual life, specifically from the vantage of the Andhra region has few Parallels. He is one of the vary rare Scholars to be reflect magisterially on the precolonial and colonial