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Articles: Folklore | Folk Tales of Telangana
- Dr. Rajeshwar Mittapalli
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A large majority of these tales and legends are not available in recorded form — written, taped or filmed — and therefore the need to record, compile and preserve them before they are lost forever.
Conclusion :
Some research has certainly gone into this aspect of the Telangana culture as is evidenced by these scholarly works: Bigicharla Krishna Reddy’s Janapada Nrityakala, Nayani Krishnakumari’s Janapada Geya Gathalu: Nrusastra Vignanamu, G.V.S. Mohan’s Janapada Vignana Vyasavali, Mikkilineni Radhakrishna Murthy’s Teluguvari Janapada Kalaroopalu, Biruduraju Ramaraju’s Janapada Geya Sahityamu, and R.V.S. Sundaram’s Andhrula Janapada Vignanamu. Although these studies are significant as critical analyses of the folk art forms, they cannot be said to have done much by way of recording and rendering in Telugu or English the tales and legends as highly readable texts.
Therefore for the purpose of preserving these narrative arts the surviving members of the communities practising them should be located and their cooperation should be enlisted in recording the narratives on audiotapes and VCDs. After thus recording, these narratives should be transcribed and reduced to readable texts in Telugu and possibly even translated into English so as to give them an all India currency. Finally the materials so obtained should be carefully documented with detailed introduction to each of them and archived. Who knows, they might rise from there, Phoenix like, at some time point of time in future.
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