This interesting article was published in THE TIMES OF INDIA on 14th September 2012 Friday.
SON SEEKS RECOGNITION FOR COMPOSER
Visakhapatnam remembers ‘pledge’ composer
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Visakhapatnam: “India is my country and all Indians are my brothers and sisters...” This famous national pledge recited by schoolchildren was composed in Visakhapatnam by then district treasury officer, Pydimarri Venkata Subba Rao, a native of Anneparthy village in Nalgonda, 50 years ago in 1962.
The original pledge composed in Telugu, first heard in a school in Visakhapatnam in 1963, was later translated into English, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada and various other vernacular languages and incorporated as the national pledge to be recited on the Republic Day in 1965. The author was a multi-faceted personality and a polyglot having achieved mastery in Sanskrit, Telugu, English and Arabic. He wrote on various subjects, including naturopathy besides authoring many books in Telugu, including a popular novel, ‘Kalabhairavudu’.
It must be noted that his efforts to popularise the pledge were encouraged by then education minister Raja Saheb of Vizianagaram, P V G Raju and nationalist Tenneti Viswanatham. Sources at the Tenneti Foundation say that Venkata Subba Rao was a frequent visitor at the residence of the late Tenneti. The duo diligently worked to ensure that the pledge was accorded constitutional recognition.
Surprised by the fact that people had remembered his father, Venkata Subba Rao’s son P V Subramanyam, observed that even he did not know that his father had authored the pledge till his 20s. “I was not aware of the fact that my father authored the pledge till a year before he passed away. It is nice to know that my father is getting due recognition,” Subramanyam said and requested the government to give credit to his father for the pledge.
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