Devulapalli Krishna Sastry

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.

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