• V.V.B. Rama Rao

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India is not just a vast country.  It is also a country with many languages, many beliefs and many cultural variations.  Our literatures are multi lingual and multi cultural. During the last decades our educational system has been undergoing many changes to vie with advanced countries for rapid development. What is needed immediately is an activity for national integration in a systematic manner.  People, and to begin with, students, should be helped and enthused to understand literatures in other languages. Good understanding of other regional language literatures promotes integration.  While under foreign rule, our students were being taught English and little real encouragement was given to knowing regional literatures.  No effort was made to bring together our regional languages and still less to our regional literatures. About seventy years ago, when we were students, a feeble effort used to be made to teach translation from regional language into English but it was not literary translation at all. We did not have any opportunity to learn anything about the literature of even our neighboring states, called provinces then. 

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