Gurajada Apparao

Gurajada Apparao, author of Kanyasulkam, the greatest play in Telugu.

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Date of issue September 21, 2013

Denomination Rs. 5

Quantity printed 410000

Printer India Security Press, Nashik

Perforation 13¼

Watermark No Watermark

Colours Multicolor

Printing process Wet Offset

Credit Smt. Vinita Sinha

Catalogue codes Michel IN 2784 Yvert et Tellier IN 2491 Stanley Gibbons IN 2966 WADP Numbering System - WNS IN096.2013

Themes Authors, Commemoration, Famous people, Headgear, Literary People (Poets and Writers), Literature, Men, People

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Gurajada Apparao

India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 21 September 2013, his birthday, for Gurajada Venkata Apparao (1862–1915), playwright, poet and pioneer of modern Telugu literature. His play Kanyasulkam (1892), on the sale of young brides, is considered the greatest play in Telugu, and his song “Desamunu Preminchumanna” (1910) is still sung. He holds the titles Kavisekhara and Abhyudaya Kavitha Pithamahudu.

India Post has no brochure for this issue online, so this text draws on Wikipedia.