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An effort like this cannot be the work of one person. We take great pleasure in presenting the members of the team behind Mana Ghantasala. They all deserve a round of applause and hearty congratulations for the effort they put in!
Sreenadh Jonnavithula
Sreenadh Jonnavithula is the webmaster of Mana Ghantasala. A Mechanical Engineer by profession, his day job involves Computational Fluid Dynamics. Building websites is a (pretty serious) hobby. He lives in Long Island, New York (USA) with his wife and six year old son.
"I have been a great fan of Ghantasala all my life, and working on this site is finally allowing me to repay some of the debt for the immense pleasure he has given me all this time. The support and encouragement of all the other fans is so encouraging, and I am glad I got started on this project!"
Panini
Panini is a longtime fan of Ghantasala, and has been the main contributor to building the Ghantasala database.
Sreenivas Paruchuri
Sreenivas's knowledge of Ghantasala's music is encyclopaedic, and we are fortunate to have his support. He has supplied several of the lyrics to the songs on this site.
K.V.Rao
K.V.Rao lives in Hyderabad, and is a close personal friend of the Ghantasala family and a longtime fan. He has contributed the quiz questions currently on the site, plus a lot of audio, text and photographic material which will soon be published.
Prasad Chodavarapu
Prasad has kindly consented to allowing us to use the Rangavalli applet, which powers all the Telugu script conversions you see on this site
Srikanth Bandi
Long before this site, Srikanth had the famous Telugu Film Server website. He has kindly allowed us to link into this database. Several of the movies and personalities in our database are hyperlinked into his database
Krishna Kandadai
Another old website on Ghantasala was maintained by Krishna. He has kindly donated the contents to us, and it appears as the section on the Bhagawad Gita. He has also contributed several lyrics, which will be published shortly.
Ravi Manda
Ravi is the webmaster of a Ghantasala website, and has contributed several lyrics to our collection
Apparao Nagabhyru
Apparao is an amateur singer, and a fan of Ghantasala. He has contributed the two Janaranjani programs published here
Appa Rao Nagabhyru is a Primary care physician practicing in Plymouth, England. He is a 'devotee' of Ghantasala, started singing his songs since college days. He is a family friend of Ghantasala met the greate master once. He formed 'UK Ghantasala association' with six others, mainly to support Sri Ghantasala Sangeeta Samsmarana Kalapeetham established in Machilipatnam in AP.He ha a large collection of Ghantasala's songs and articles.
Nachaki
NaChaKi has transcribed song lyrics, and articles for publishing online
Originally a resident of Hyderabad, I am currently a student of Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering at the Louisiana Tech University, U.S.A. My hobbies make a big list [:-)] , basically because I don't take up anything very seriously! [:-(] I write songs (looking forward to jump into Tollywood soon :)!) and poetry in Telugu, draw pictures occasionally, sing frequently (but it's good to hear only rarely!), snap good (at least I feel they're good) photographs, especially of Mother Nature (for which I get scoldings from my family that I waste film in trying to replicate commercially available greeting cards), read books (mostly Telugu), browse the Internet, etc. Of course, I study and do some research too [:-)] , at least because I plan to start my Ph.D. soon! I also write articles to a few websites including the ReformIndia, TeluguCinema, and Kaburlu.
In music, I like anything melodious, but I prefer to listen to Carnatic music or old Telugu film music. That's how I started liking Sree Ghantasala's voice. I have been hearing to the golden voice for at least 20 years now, thanks to my parents for inculcating such good taste to me and my brother. It's a great opportunity for me to be a part of the project of building this website. I wish this shall be a one-stop website for Ghantasala, though I also wish the great singer is commemorated through various sites on the cyberspace. I was not even born when Sree Ghantasala passed away, but it was a pleasure to be able to see at least his family members. (I proudly possess Sree Ghantasala's son's signature in the guestbook of my personal website.) My humble homage to the great singer of India, and my kudos to all those highly knowledgeable persons behind this project.
Gopi Krishna Chebiyyam
Gopi has been very helpful in entering text into data files, for publication
I am a Communications Software Engineer by profession and I live in Hyderabad, India. My hobbies include listening to Music(Telugu Old Songs, Carnatic and Hindustani), reading books and touring. I started pursuing these only a few years back and so I am still a novice.
I am a fan of Ghantasala. I have to do lot more to be called a "great" fan. I am really amazed by the fact that this project is done very professionally and very enthusiastically. I am also surprised by the depth of knowledge some members possess. Above all, I like the humbleness of this group, I am glad that I got to know them and meet some.
Ramakrishna (Ramam) Devaraju
Ramam is a Ghantasala fan from Dallas, TX, USA. Ramam hosts a radio program Ganasudha (with Padma Devaraju as the co-host, Saturday mornings at 9:00am CST). He has contributed the songs from the New York concert.
I work for Computers Sciences Corporation (CSC) as a Systems Analyst in Dallas, TX. I am a big fan of Ghantasala and started singing from the age of eight. My hobbies are.. Music.. Music.. Music.., of course only Telugu Movie Music. I have formed Ragavipamchi Orchestra and give concerts in Dallas, TX and occasionally in India as well during my visits to India. I have a wonderful family -- Padma Devaraju my wife, a boy, Aneel Devaraju and a girl, Veena Devaraju, who are also big music lovers, especially Ghantasala songs. I owe everything to my mother Smt. Ranganayakamma garu and Sri D.V.S. Narayana Murty garu for encouraging my talents since my childhood until my marriage and to my wife, Padma for continuing the support in satisfying the singer in me....