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To Sir, With Love..From Chief Ministers

By Vikram Mukka

For Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, Teachers’ Day is always special. An aficionado of Telugu literature and an orator par excellence, KCR credits his teachers for his success. On Friday, he went down the memory lane and with effortless ease, as always, cast a spell on a packed audience at the Ravindra Bharathi. KCR recited Telugu poetry much to the delight of those present and vividly recalled how his teachers ignited the passion for literature in him at a tender age at school.

“If I am speaking before you today, it is all because of my Gurus who never charged a penny for educating me. It’s their greatness and magnanimity that opened up a whole new horizon..of Telugu literature for me at a young age,” he said, adding it was because of them that he became acquainted with some of the finest works in Telugu literature.

To drive home the point, KCR, in his inimitable style and diction, recited a poem from Uttara Gograhanam penned by Tikkana. No wonder, the mesmerised audience applauded him with gusto.

The Chief Minister went on to narrate his emotional bonding with his teacher Mruthanjaneya Sharma. “Our Sharma Sir would buy us note-books himself, whenever a student came forward to accept the challenge of reciting tongue-twister poems. On one such occasion, I, in fact, was rewarded with two note-books. I could pull off a difficult poem of Tikkana,” a proud KCR recalled with childlike enthusiasm.

A student of the Government District School in Dubbaka (Medak district), Chandrasekhar Rao remembered how he would run errands for his teachers at any point of time during the day. “I used to collect milk from the nearest milk booth every morning to deliver the same at our teachers’ doorstep — over 20 of them!” he reminisced.

Under the tutelage of his teachers Raghava Reddy and Mruthanjaneya Sharma, Chandrasekhar Rao said he had honed his oratorical skills to perfection. To top it all, the Chief Minister revealed that he had penned his first poem when he was still in Class IX.

Source: The New Indian Express

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