47th Death Anniversary of Sri Rallapalli Ananthkrishna Sharma on 11th March

The 47th death anniversary of eminent music and literary scholar Sri Rallapalli Ananthakrishna Sharma, who deciphered the sankirtanas of Sri Tallapaka Annamacharya from copper plates and documented them while also tuning hundreds of compositions, will be observed on Wednesday, March 11.

The programme will be jointly organised by the TTD Annamacharya Project and Hindu Dharmic Institutions. 

Floral tributes will be paid to the statue of Sri Rallapalli Ananthakrishna Sharma at 9 a.m. in the premises of Sri Padmavati Women’s Degree and PG College. Later, a literary seminar will begin at 10:30 a.m. at Annamacharya Kalamandiram in Tirupati.

Sri Rallapalli Ananthakrishna Sharma was born on January 23, 1893, in Rallapalli village of Anantapur district. He served as a Telugu Professor for 38 years at Maharaja’s College in Mysuru. He also coined the name “Akashavani” for Radio. Recognising his talent, the then TTD Executive Officer Sri Chelikani Annarao entrusted him with the responsibilities of Sri Venkateswara Oriental Research Institute in 1949.

He was also assigned the task of deciphering the Annamacharya Sankirtanas discovered from the Tallapaka treasury of Tirumala temple. Besides compiling the compositions from copper plates and documenting them, he set tunes to several hundred sankirtanas. TTD appointed Sri Ananthakrishna Sharma as an Asthana Vidwan in 1979.