Sri Kandukuri Veeresalingam Pantulu : Morning Star of Telugu Renaissance
When the Telugu region was wrapped up in the darkness of superstition and social vices in the nineteenth century and the Telugu people were in a state of somnolence, there appeared on April 16, 1848, a star, which heralded the dawn of a new era and marked a new awakening. And that was Sri Kandukuri Veeresalingam Pantulu.