PIB Analysis : 1st and 2nd June IAS SQUAD

PIB Analysis for UPSC CSE

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Context : Vice President addresses valedictory function of death centenary of Kandukuri Veeresalingam

About Kandukuri Veeresalingam

Kandukuri Veeresalingam Pantulu was a social reformer and writer of Andhra Pradesh, India.
He is considered as the Father of renaissance movement in Telugu.
He was one of the early social reformers who encouraged women education, remarriage of widows which was not supported by the society during his time and fought against dowry system.
He also started a school in Dowlaiswaram in 1874
He constructed a temple as ‘Brahmo Mandir’ in 1887 and the ‘Hithakarini School’ in 1908 in Andhra Pradesh.
His novel Rajasekhara Charitramu is considered to be the first novel in Telugu literature
He is the first person to conduct a widow remarriage in Andhra Pradesh, the first to start a co-educational school.
As a writer he wrote the first autobiography in Telugu, the first to write a history on Telugu poets and the first Telugu writer to translate scientific books

PIB Analysis : 1st and 2nd June