Your remarks about yourself show your modesty. None of us can altogether shake off the habits and sentiments of a lifetime, but original thinkers like you who combine real scholarship with literary power are able to chalk out new paths to meet new conditions and to save the literature from stagnation. So I want to study your writings. Your poetry is qute in the grammar and diction of the old ports. In prose you have certainly deviated, but what I fail to understand is how you can make common cause with persons like Mr. Vavilikolanu- Subbarao who takes on one hand an extreme position in prose and reflects a decadant taste in poetry and with writers of the Viresalingam School on the other from whom there is greater danger to the old literary dialect than from persons who advocate cultivation of spoken dialects. I think as a leader it is your duty to examine the merits and defects of that school of prose which is in greater vogue than the classical style that you advocate.
I await with interest your pamphelt on Gramya...... I hope you have recovered from the fatigue of the journey to Nidadavolu.
- yours very sincerely,
- G. V. Appa Rao.
- yours very sincerely,
P. S. I just now received your pamphlet. Please accept my best thanks for it. I wanted to read the best presentation of the opposite views. I shall try to meet your objections. We
