Parasara Sridhar Duggirala (పరాశర శ్రీధర్ దుగ్గిరాల)
తెలుగు సాహిత్యం (Telugu Literature)
Telugu is one of the prominent Dravidian languages that is spoken by more than 70 million people in South India. It is also referred as "Italian of the east" because every word (well, almost every word) ends with a vowel. Some links about Telugu that I find useful.
Basics, Reading, and Writing in Telugu.
- Telugu: Wikipedia entry for Telugu language.
- Telugu Wikipedia: Wikipedia in Telugu language.
- A link for Telugu Unicode where you can with "enough" effort write in Telugu by purely using the unicode.
- Lekhini: a website where you can write in English and get the "transliteration" in Telugu.
- Google also has a good transliteration tool for Telugu that primarily uses statistical machine learning. Most of the times, Google's transliterator does a good job, but at times, is imprecise. Configure your gmail to have Telugu by following instructions given here.
- I have created an Overleaf template that makes it easier to write Telugu using LaTeX while using various Open Source Fonts for Telugu. Several people have found this useful. The template is here.
Telugu - Books, Magazines, and Multimedia.
- There are several online magazines that routinely publish excellent content. Some of them are మధురవాణి - Madhuravani, శారంగ-Saaranga, తెలుగు-వన్ - TeluguOne, ఈ-మాట - Ee-maata, పుస్తకం.నెట్ - pustakam.net, ఆవకాయ.ఇన్ - aavakaya.in.
- To purchase Telugu books, I routinely use కినిగె - Kinige. Unfortulately, there has been a problem of piracy in e-books, and a lot of authors are not interested in publishing electronically. A relatively new app called చదువు - chaduvu is now making several works available in an easy to read form on smartphones.
- For listening to book discussions and interviews, I follow హర్షణీయం - Harshaneeyam and దాసుభాషితం - Daasubhashitam. చదువు - chaduvu also has audio books.
- If you are interested in movies, there is no shortage of Youtube channels that discuss Telugu movies.
Music, Books, and Chess.
Carnatic Music
Some useful links
- Carnatic America keeps track of a lot of local concerts.
- Sangeetha Priya has many recordings of prominent artists.
- Charsur also contains several latest concert recordings.
- Sahithyam.net is a user friendly interface to read lyrics of carnatic songs.
Jazz
Developed interest in Jazz and Harmonica only recently. Feel free to send me your suggestions.
Chess
I follow Gotham Chess and Chessbase India.
Books
Whenever I get time, I am interested to read books on History, Culture, Science, Entertainment, and Policy.