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[Excerpts from the letter written byApparao to the Editor The Hindu in 1912, December which were quoted in The Gramya Controversy book] The general complaint is that spoken Telugu is not grammatical. To prove this writers misquote and misplay standard authors. If spoken Telugu is not grammatical it is the fault of the grammarians’ rules of grammar have no value except as statements of fact: respectable expressions can never be ungrammatical if in general use... The old literary dialect in Telugu corresponds more or less to Chaucer’s English and it would be as absurd to write in this dialect in the 2Otl century as it would be if an English writer of the present century were to adopt the language of Chaucer. In fact, the spoken and written dialects in Telugu are two different languages practically. Owing to this Telugu literature is stunted and few educated Indians care to write books in Telugu. The contest in Telugu is between a dead dialect and a living dialect and if the educated classes and the Telugu people would be impartial and rational they should prefer the latter... [Notes scribbled by Apparao on the margins of the book Dramatic Opinions and Essays by Bernard Shawl How to manage the introduction of the story and the characters in the opening of a play without giving explanation? In the case of popular stories, a Dramatic author has an advantage and this probably accounts for the superior technique of Shakespeare. The devices which may help a dramatist are the construction of the past by relevant statements which characters speak with sincerity, because they believe in those statements or because the statements affect them. Statements should describe the past in brief but clear allusions. Incidence of the past should be such as effect (ing) the present and the future. The drama should open with sincerity, conviction and action. The essential characters should be brought out by bold touches. The significance of incidence in the plot scheme should be opponent. Contrasts help to (bring out) boldness of outline. The motives should be felt in every word and act. [Notes written by Apparao in the other books] 1’ 982 My Own Thoughts