monday mosaic a weekly literary forum 15th nov

this week monday mosaic was held in association with the visakhapatnam public library as a part of the National Libray Week celebrations. the topic was Nehru as a writer. L.R.Swami presided the meeting. jagaddhatri was the first speaker. she expressed her views and feelings reading Nehrus works. she opined that Nehru was a follower of Gandhi but Nehru was more pragmatic than the former. if Nehru had to be assessed as a writer we ought to know him as a man. he was a very sensitive person, able statesman, a loving father , and had the calibre to play all the diverse roles in his personal and political life. Dr.Prasanna Kumar retired professor of Andhra University, a well read man and an effective speaker said that reading Nehru will charge him up and rejuvenate him. Quoting some anecdotes from the life of Nehru personal and political the speaker has made his speech interesting to the audience. The next speaker Ramateertha, writer, translator and critic and also a very good orator spoke about Nehru giving some new insights into studying Nehru in various facets. He proposed that the library management should conduct such meetings to discuss many things which cannot be done in an hour or two. it must be a series of meetings and people who are interested will attend. Saying that Chalam the great Telugu writer too like Nehru read and was influenced by Maeterlinck. He said that Chalam has written a story Kamala Nehru Samadhi Mundu Nehru( nehru beside the tomb of kamala nehru). this is a very unique experiment al writing of Chalam,as there is no tomb of Kamala existed in India at all. but the story shows the sensitive personality and the simplicity of a great politician who is even not allowed to have some time to at least mourn his beloved wife.People flock around him even there to see the great states man. quoting some more incidents from Dom Moraes autobiography My Son's Father ramateertha said that Dom was then a student and was also present when Kamala Nehru was in her last days. Dr. Maturi Srinivas writer and an active member of the Visakha patnam Steel Plant literary association rendered vote of thanks.Eminent vizagites like Dr.C.S. Rao, Varahalu Chetty and many others attended the meeting.