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Devulapalli Krishnasastri is a Telugu poet and
was born in East Godavari district.
He was brought up in family of court-poets and
he started writing poetry from a very young age.
Krishnasastri's works changed significantly
after he met Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore
at Santiniketan in 1929. Krishnasastri joined
All India Radio in 1945 and has written number
of plays for it.Andhra University has conferred
the title Kalaprapoorna (The complete
artist) on him in 1975. He was awarded the
Sahitya Akademi Award too. He was given the
Padma Bhushan in 1976. |
