TELUGU LANGUAGE DAY

Aug. 30, 2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted people on Telugu Language Day.

About:

  • Telugu Language Day is observed on 29 August each year.

  • This date was chosen to coincide with the birthday of the Telugu poet Gidugu Venkata Ramamurthy (1863-1940).

  • He championed the cause of using a language comprehensible to the common man (‘Vyavaharika Bhasha’) as opposed to the scholastic language (‘Grandhika Bhasha’).