On June 25th, Chiranjeevi Harika cohosted Mohana Murali GaanaLahari on TeluguOne Radio. This 16-year old singing sensation will wow you in more ways than one.  Yes, she is entirely brought-up in the USA. Please join me in encouraging her. Laalee Laale

On June 25th, Chiranjeevi Harika cohosted Mohana Murali GaanaLahari on TeluguOne Radio. This 16-year old singing sensation will wow you in more ways than one.  Yes, she is entirely brought-up in USA. Please join me in encouraging her. Chinuku Thadiki (

**** Bringing Sri Jonnavittula's "My Telugu" back to focus ********* With this rendering of "Naa Telugu" from his book Telugu Vedam, Sri Jonnavithula Ramalingeswara Rao got TORi audiences spell-bound . In this podcast Jonnavittula sings about the greatne

I caught-up with Rao to make sense out of Euro crisis. Even though Rao is retired and claims that he is not in touch with what is going on in the markets lately, he is as sharp as ever. This 40 min long interview sheds light on a number of fundamental rea

Mr. Rao Chalasani was a veteran Wall Street economist who retired in 2000. His long career included stints as the chief economist at Everen Securities which later became First Union Securities. Currently FUS is a unit of Wells Fargo. In the 90s he was fre

I caught up with Dr. JP during his recent visit to USA. In this interview Dr. JP detailed the purpose of his visit, clarified his stance on the Telangana issue. The crux of the conversation is on his message of 'change.' I asked him about the changes he

As I grew up, I am not reading as much Telugu literature - especially Telugu fiction. But, as a teenager I read just about everything Yandamuri wrote. I read his first novel "Rushi" when it came out as a supplicant to Swathi monthly. I immediately wrote

***** Nothing new here. Just resurfacing an old podcast for more exposure ***** A coherent arrangement of words for abstract, but cogent thoughts is what touches us. It doesn't matter if the central idea is about life and love; or death and sorrow - the

Recall my interview with Nalamotu Chakravarthy about our 'glorious Telugu roots?' Well, this is a follow-up to that. Chakravarthy Nalamotu's recent post, "Why I sell my book?" got my attention. Two noteworthy things that speak a lot about the title of hi

Who needs introduction to Dr. JP? Don't answer that.. It hits home! For, I needed an introduction to JP as recently as 2 1/2 years ago when listeners on my show kept asking me to interview him. A few went on to say that I even talk much the same things