020 - Mahakavi Kalidasu - Telugu Harikatha - Veeragandham Venkata Subbarao - DD - BW - Hyderabad

Like William Shakespeare in English, Kalidasu is a great Indian Poet, Writer and Author of many world famous dramas in Sanskrit. He was born 2500 years back, much before Shakespeare was born, but illiterate who later marries a scholarly princess, and finally got the blessings of goddess Kali Mata to become Sanskrit Exponent and wrote most popular drama "Abhignana Shakuntalam". The Harikatha on Mahakavi Kalidasu revolves around how an illiterate foolish person becomes one of the world's greatest scholar. Sri Veeragandham Venkata Subbarao performed this program in Doordarshan Station, Hyderabad Center 19th May, 1982. This video was recorded in black and white while live telecasted in TV.