ఇది నిజముగ నిజమేనా

వెలితి.

తెలియనిది.
ఓకేసారి నేను అనుభవించిన ఈ శూన్యత ఇక శాశ్వతం అనిపించాకా అప్పుడు తెలిసింది ఇక మిగిలినవి అక్షరాల అల్లికలేనన్ని.

 Sorry Sir. I am not well in expressing my feelings in Telugu. I know very well this farewell in English will hurt you. Please pardon this sinner. Let every Telugu parent be awake to this point that we are killing our language by keeping away our future citizens away from gems and pearls created by greats. Let this be the day to acknowledge the fact we have a govt which is very busy in safeguarding TELUGU in a Mausoleum. 

I feel sad to have wasted good years reading bad and cheap stuff in my youthful days. I should be thankful to my grandfather who introduced me to "బుడుగు"     

I read a lot about  budugu and his exploits at an age of 11 and 12 ( perhaps my golden years) I never knew about the creator. And ramana garu was no walt disney. Yes. If he was we the publicity stunt masters of every outsider should have received universal patronage. రమణగారు, మళ్ళి  ఇక్కడ పుట్టకండి . We ignore genius  between us in all possible ways. We never carry legacies to next gen. 

Later on when i learnt the writer of mutyalamuggu was very much the creator of budugu and stories i said "oh". for now i am grown into a directionless teen and later  care less young man. 

But when i  became a teacher i realized how much i missed you. I realized how simple and worthy your writing is. I realized how i relished my childhood literary inclinations with SUPERMAN, PHANTOM, ZORRO, TARZAN, SHADOW, ASTHA SIDDAS, ALICE, GULLIVER, VIKRAMARKA............. AND BUDUGU on equal planes. heres the lines i never forget

Yes, you have worked wonders with bapu garu on Telugu screen. You have your place well settled besides Telugu literary giants.

But for me and for lots of kids ( perhaps the tech savvy  may not know) you gave budugu and his friends. They are no less than swami and his friends or Mickey and friends. In fact budugu carries something which others doesn't. The heart and freshness of a child    

Thank u sir for leaving an immortal budugu with us

My own sweet memories!

 " రమనోయి! నన్ను  ఇలా వదిలేస్తే ఎలా . నాకు బోల్డు ఖోపం వచేసింది! " ఏడుపు కూడా !

NOTE: Budugu and his friends were the creation of sri mullapudi ramana. But the cartoons of the characters were by Bapu. I dont have much insight into sri Ramana's work except for budugu and some excerpts of kotikomachi. By making a reference of walt disney i made a mistake of not mentioning bapu. Infact the line of bapu and word of ramana are/were inseparble. My words here were born out by experiences   had at parlakhemundi. Being alone my friends were huge collections of books. They were my companions. And budugu was one such companion in my lonely innocent child hood days.