Media Reviews & Publications


Some of the comments from Printing media are:
  • Indian  Today - Narendra has an amazing skill in the art of Characterization.  He portrays the hustle and byustle of human activity in a masterly way by means of telling strokes – Editorial.
  • Rachana - Chekov expressed that there is no need to give so much importance to the three  parts of the story, the beginning the  middle and the ending.  In the words of George Lening the story  is like the opening of the door and closing of its after some time as everything is know in between.  This technique is abundant in Nalugu Kalla Mantapam – Koduri Sri Rama Moorthy, 
  • India Today - Athyacharam of Narendra remains as a good story for ever in Telugu Literature – Sreepathi. 
  • Katha Sahithi - Narendra has a clear perspective of the predicaments of human existence.  He can clearly portray the kernels of the financial relationship which play important role ion the life of the Modern human being.
  • Katha Silpam - The stories like Athyacharam, Nalugu Kalla Mantapam and Nithyaamoo Nirantharamoo prove that Narendra is one among the few short story writers who present realistic picture of the contemporary life – Visalandra Publishers.
  • Rachana - Narendra’s Nirantharadwayam is a story which the Telugu people can proudly present to the world as one among their greatest achievements in the realm of short story – Vasundhara Monthly

Publications:
  • Hinduism – A Humanistic approach, Sapthagiri, Oct., 1995.
  • Mysticism: East is West and West is East, Sapthagiri, Dec., 1995.
  • Rabindranath Tagore’s  Muktha-dhara:  An allegory  Par Excellence – A Journal of Indian Literature and Aesthetics 1998.
  • Unveiling the Masks: A Comparative Study of the Autobiography of Mark Twain and My Days of R.K. Narayan,  In pursuit of American Studies, South  Indian American Studies Net Work: 2002
  •  The period of Renaissance in Telugu literature, Critical Expressions,  Mangalam Publishers and Distributor, New Delhi,(2011)  
  • Historical Elements in Salman Rushdie’s Shame, Postcolonial Indian English Fiction, ed.M. Rajagopalachary&K.Damodara Rao, Rawat Publications, Jaipur, 2016
  • The Telugu Short Story since 1960s, The Literary Criterion, Dhvanyaloka, Mysore, 2016.

University Journals: 
  • The Modern Women  of Virtue: A Study of the protagonists of Nayantara Sahgal, Women in Women’s writing, Sri Padmavathi Mahila Viswavidyalaya, Tirupati, pp: 129-140.
  • The treatment of Hinduism in Mrs. Sahgal’s  A Time to be Happy, This time of Morning and Storm in Chandigarh, “Critical Studies on Indian Fiction in English”  ed., by V.V.L.N. Narendra Kumar, Atlantic publishers and   distributors, 1999,  pp: 134-144.
  • The Portrayal of the Self and the Universal in Rabindranath Tagore’s Muktadhara , S.V. University Journal of English Studies, July-Dec., 2004, pp 9-14
  • Rabindranath Tagore, The Short Story Writer As Social Reformer,   SVU Journal of English Studies, Vol. 7 P.No.29-33 (2009) 2230-7923
  • Gulpika: The Short Story with A Difference, Prof. M. Narendra, SVU Journal of   English Studies, Vol.8 P.No.67-77 (2010) 2230-7923
  •  History as an Allegry: Salman Rushdie’s The Enchantress of Florence, SVU Journal of English Studies, Vol. 9&10  P.No.29-36 (2011) 2230-7923
  • The Grass is singing as a Critique on the Institution, Marriage,  SVU Journal of  English Studies, Vol.11 P.No.49-55 (2011) 2230-7923 
  • Theme of Fundamentalism in Taslima Narsin’s ‘Lajja’  , SVU Journal of English Studies, Vol. 12 P.No.73-80 (2012) 2230-7923 
  • Changing Modes of Tradition and Modernity in Telugu Literature,  SVU Journal of English Studies, (2013) 
  • The Fall of the House of Usher: As an Arabesque;  SVU Journal of  English Studies, Vol. 13&14, P.No.120-125 (2014)    
  • Balled of Ontillu – A saga of a Modern Warrior – SVU Journal of English Studies, Vol.  13&14,  P.No.177 to 183  (2014) 
  • Protesting against male hegemony with ironic shivaree- Asia- Pacific Journal  of Social   Sciences, Number 5, P.No. 25-29  (2014)
  • Chaso- a Critical Assessment, – SVU Journal of English Studies, Vol. 15, p 123-125, (2015)
  • Shakespeare and Telugu Literature,  SVU Journal of English Studies, Vol. 16,p 166-169,  (2016)



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