Gidugu Venkata Ramamoorty
Gidugu Venkata Ramamurthy was a Telugu writer and one of the earliest modern Telugu linguists and social visionaries during the British rule. He championed the cause of using a language comprehensible to the common man as opposed to the scholastic language .
Gidugu Ramamurthy was born at Parvatalapeta, Srikakulam near Vamsadhara River on the border of Orissa, His father Veeraraju worked as revenue inspector and died when Ramamurthy was justyears old. It was a struggle for him to survive. He studied privately and passed his matriculation, staying in his sisters house and began his life as a teacher in Gajapati Maharaja School, Parlakimidi for 55 years.
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