SESHENDRA
SARMA's copyrights
belongto
his son Satyaki only:
Indira
Dhanrajgir submitted a fake document
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Hyderabad (Aadab
Hyderabad): In 1989 eminent poet Guturu Seshendra Sarma gave away the
copyrights of all his works to his
son Satyaki as a birthday gift. Immediately on his demise in 2007,
those rights fell into a vortex. Indira Dhanrajgir created a false document
that Seshendra Sarma was her husband and that he had delegated the copyrights
to her . She submitted this fake document to the court. She got Seshendra's
epic 'naa desam, naa prajalu' published by Neelkamal Publications
by paying money. Satyaki filed a petition in the city civil court of Hyderabad
that this is a violation of the rights given to him by his father. After 10
years the Court gave its judgment in 2018. Justice Dr N.V. Vidya Natha Reddy
gave a clear cut judgment. In his judgement he declared that all the copyrights
of Seshendra belong to his son Satyaki . The sensational issue
in this judgement is the sending of Indira Dhanrajgir's
statement -that Seshendra was her husband and that he gave away
the copyrights of his works to her - for a forensic analysis
by the Court. The Telangana Forensic Laboratory submitted its report that the
document is fake and Seshandra did not sign the document but his
signature taken from elsewhere was pasted therein. Justice Vidya Natha Reddy
accepted the analysis of the forensic department and delivered his
judgement based on it. Sathyaki filed a caveat in the High Court on May 2 to
prevent Indira Dhanrajgir or her followers filing an appeal in the court.
(Aadab Hyderabad : Telugu News Paper
: 16th may 2018 )
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LITERATURE IS PEOPLE'S WEALTH
NOT THAT PERSONAL PROPERTY OF ANY ONE
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In
modern literature Seshendra is a blockbuster; he was a
vortex in the field of poetry. Even after his demise, he
continued to be the centre of a sensational buzz. The controversy over his
copyrights raised such a thrilling sensation. The Hyderabad City Civil Court recently
gave its judgment. While declaring that Seshendra's copyrights belong to his
son, Saatyaki, it exposed his opponent, Indira Dhanrajgir's criminal
conspiracy. Here is an interview held with Saatyaki against this
background.
Q:
How did this controversy begin?
A:
I didn't imagine that my father's gift would create so much crisis and agony for me. I only thought that it would
enable me to bring all his works within the reach of the public at some stage.
But I did realize one thing when he was on his deathbed; this would enable me
to prevent one individual, especially
the one who caused maximum harm to him, from misusing his works for false publicity. Anyone could notice these two
angles during the 11 years' time after my father's death.
Q.
How come Indira Dhanrajgir became your opponent?
A:
This role as well as her behaviour is her own choice;
this is the basic contradiction of our relationship. My aim is to reprint my
father's works for the benefit of all; her anxiety is to get his works
published by herself with the sole intention of getting publicity mileage as
his wife.
Q:
Why do you talk of publicity?
A:
Right from the beginning, there had been a special page of
'dedication' in every book; this contained the wording 'wife, Rajakumari Indira
Devi Dhanrajgir (Where as in Makhdoom Hohiuddin’s books her name appears as
Kumari Indira Dhanrajgir)'. There was also a foreword written by someone in her
name. Isn't this for publicity? Even now her crying is not for his
writings but for not having a special page with her name. Those women
who filled the pages of history sacrificed their lives happily for the sake of
their husband’s honour and reputation. But they never sought
publicity for themselves. For the sake of claiming her share in her father's
property, this lady is sacrificing my father's life and his literary
works. Soon after my father's demise, an article 'Who are the heirs of
Seshendra?" revealing all these aspects appeared. When Vijayababu was
Editor, this was published in 'Andhra Prabha' Telugu News Paper .
Q.
Which crime perspective was revealed by the Court's judgement?
A.
By giving a donation of six lakhs to Telugu University, she tried to get my
father's books reprinted by it. She
submitted a document to the University showing that my father gave her
copyrights. When I sent them a legal notice, Telugu University returned her the
money as well as the document. For the last 11 years under her pressure
I thought that my father really gave her copyrights. The Court, however,
sent the document to Telangana Forensic Laboratory. The Forensic Department
submitted a detailed report saying that the document is fake and my father's
signature was taken from elsewhere and pasted therein. The Judge
in his judgment mentioned all these aspects in detail.
Q.
A few interviews given by Indiraji in Telugu have appeared recently. Have you
seen them?
A.
Of course, I've seen them. She doesn't know Telugu alphabets. So , undoubtedly
they're cooked by Her Majesty’s Court Canines . That is the origin of these interviews. The 93-year old lady who doesn't know Telugu
alphabets has directly given rebirth to an Editor of Telugu News Daily paper as
her Domestic Canine. That's her razakar skill. There's a limit to putting a
sack of lies on the head of a reader.
Introducing
herself in a poets' meet.. that too in the august presence of PV
Narasimharao in 1960 in Hyderabad ! Fantastic fiction! My father worked
as Municipal Commissioner during 1960 - 65 in Gudur, Chittoor, Ongole and
Kadapa; he was transferred to Hyderabad in 1966. Prior to '66 my father he did
not come to Hyderabad either officially or unofficially. What was Her Majesty’s
life during this period? She was having
a love affair with the revolutionary poet Makhdhoom Mohiuddin. He wrote several
ghazals on love and dedicated one each to her every day. I secured its manuscript and published its
scanned Copy under the tile 'Chupa Makhdoom'. She made his son
Nusrat Mohiuddin to file a police report against me. She reminisced her
love affair with Mukhdoom in Aivan E Urdu Idaaraa's Sab Ras, a
literary monthly under the title 'Yaadein'. You can see the video in
Youtube made in February '18 by Hindi Poet Manish Gupta when she was 93. In
this 30 minutes video she fervently recalled her romantic relationship with
Late. Makhdoom .
Q.
What is your real objection to her interviews?
A.
No, I don't have any objection. When a Court passes its judgement and
reveals
a crime element over the copyrights of an eminent poet after 10 years, instead
of doing his primary job of highlighting the judgement for the sake
of serving the field of publications and the society at large , the
Editor chose to hush up the matter; he published her interview mixed with
a colour of love poetry, love marriage; this shows’ honourable’ editor’s his lack of basic sense of duty and culture
Q.
What's this engagement with Patiala Prince?
A.
This is a cock and bull story. She was married to Srikishan Seth, the
nephew of Maharaj Kishan Prashad, Nizam's Prime Minister in 1945. On the very
day of her marriage, she ran away from home after thrashing him. Since
then she has been after married men under the garb of love
poetry and literature. PV Narasimha Rao and Jalagam Vengal Rao were not prominent
politicians during 1960-66. PV became Minister for Education around '67; during
'73-77 Jalagam was Chief Minister; both of them were constantly busy in
serving Indira Gandhi. Thus they had no role to play in our Indira's street
play. Since she would not receive her share in her father's property as
unmarried woman, she staged the wedding drama which didn't have blessings
from any one. Her father as well as her younger brothers always moved with guns
to shoot her and her 'husband’. This situation obtains to this day. This sad state of affairs subjected my father
to an untold misery, both physically and mentally. Finally in 2007,
she stopped giving him medical treatment and caused his death.
Q.
What is your final statement?
A.
From times immemorial, literature, sciences and all intellectual wealth have
been the property of the society. This is an historical truth. Literature
is people's property; it belongs to the entire society; it belongs to
people only and it’s not the personal property of one individual.
-
Shubhashree Sahithi
(
Aadab Hyderabad : Telugu News Paper:18th June 2018 )
After 11 long years our Judiciary has unraveled the crime story behind the veil of copyrights.
In my interview ( by
Prof.Satyanarayana , Present V.C , Telugu University ) I said the document
produced by that lady is a Palace Intrigue and it is vindicated conclusively by the
Forensic Analysis and the court. This
proves that Father is innocent. He did
not yield to her untold pressure and
torture. Today this news item has
appeared in Eenadu and Sakshi papers in their state pages , Page No 6 in Eenadu
and Page 2 in Sakshi. I hereby attach 3 important pages of 19 page long Court Judgment .
Visionary Poet of the
Millennium
An Indian poet Prophet
Seshendra Sharma
eBooks : http://kinige.com/author/Gunturu+Seshendra+Sharma
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The Copyright Controversy about
Seshendra’s Books
Saatyaki’s Version
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Commercial advertisements cannot replace facts.
This time justice will win in a court of law.
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It appears
that the copyright of books of the noted poet, Gunturu Seshendra Sarma who
passed away in May 2007, has become a subject of controversy.
On
December 2, 1989, Sri Seshendra transferred completely, in a will, the
copyright of his corpus of entire works to his second and youngest son,
Satyaki, in his own handwriting.
When
Sri Seshendra was alive, Satyaki reprinted seven books from the collection of
his newspaper writings, Enta kalam Ee
Endamavulu? (How long are these
Mirages?) in June 1995 to Oohalo
(In Imagination) in 2001. Within
six months after Sri Seshendra passed away, Satayaki re-printed the modern
classic, My Country, My People.
The
book-launching was organized on November 16. On 19-1-2007 (Monday) there
appeared an advertisement given by an advocate in a newspaper(Andhra
Jyothi:Telugu Daily). It was stated in the commercial that Sri Seshendra,
suspending all his previous wills, delegated the copyrights of his books to
Indira Dhanarajgir on 5-1-2006. That way she has subjected the issue of
copyrights of Sri Seshendra’s books to controversy. In this background, here is
an interview with Satyaki who owned the copyright of Sri Seshendra’s books for
17 years.
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Q:
What must be the reason for the release of this commercial ad, now?
Satyaki: I was taken aback by this advertisement. She
knows well that my father has bequeathed the copyrights of all his books to me
in his own handwriting and based on that I re-printed a few of his books. If my
father has transferred the copyright to Indira Dhanarajgir on 5-1-2006, as she
claims, he would have informed me. He was hale and healthy at the age of 62
when he gave the copyright to me. There was no need for him to change the copyrights
in his old age which had been given to me when he was sound in his health. This
betrays the conspiracy of Indira Dhanrajgir. This is a palace intrigue. That
she is resorting to such things when she crossed the age of 82 brings to focus
her scruples and moral stature.
Q:
Did you discuss the issue of copyrights with legal experts?
Satyaki:
I discussed this issue with a few legal experts. They expressed their
considered opinion that the paper that she holds is of no value and that it
will not stand in a court of law.
I didn’t go further into details as
the need did not arise. In contemporary literary scenario there are a few
instances where the copyrights of poets and writers belonged to their children.
Sri Chalam’s copyright went to his daughter Sourees, that of Sri Sri to his
son, Ramana. Maqdoom’s copyrights went to his son, Susrat. On many occasions,
the poets did not write a will. But n my case, there is a clear will written by
my father and also its implementation during his lifetime.
Q.
After Seshendra’s death, how did she become Indira Seshendra?
Satyaki: In the last 30, 40 years, she was not
consistent in the use of her name. Around 1961 in Maqdoom Mohiuddn’s poetry
anthology at the end of two poems her name appeared as Ms. Indira Dhanaragir.
In 1967, in the poetry collection, Pakshulu (Birds) published by my
father, she appeared as ‘Indira Devi Dhanarajgir.’ In November 2006, when she
published a novel, Kamotsav, originally written by Chandrasekhar Rao but
published in my father’s name, she included her name as ‘Rajkumari Indira Dhanarajgir’
as copyright owner. After the death of Seshendra on May 30, when Telugu
University and State Culture ministry together organised a meeting in his
memory she gave commercial advertisements to the newspapers, Eenadu, and The
Hindu. Here she published her name as ‘Indiradevi Seshendra Sarma.’ Again, within a few months, in another
commercial advertisement that appeared on 19-11-2007 in a daily newspaper, and
the one on 26-11-07 she appeared as ‘Rajkumari Indiradevi Dhanarajgir.’ Thus,
there is no consistency in the use of her name. It is changed based on the need
and context.
Q.
Will you give a counter to it?
Satyaki:
Indira Dhanarajgir means enormous money power, and it is a well-known fact. I
don’t have the financial capacity to compete with her in issuing newspaper
advertisements each time. This is also well-known. But as soon as I read the ad
on 26-11-07, I
sent my response through an advocate by registered post. I also received the
receipt for the same. I will continue the publication programme depending on
the financial assistance I get. I firmly believe that copyrights are not like
movable and immovable properties to be enjoyed, but an onerous responsibility
to be carried out. In fact, since the year 2000, whenever contacted on phone,
my father would say, “I am waiting for my train to come” or “I am sitting on
the platform and waiting for my train.”
Ever since 2002, whenever contacted
between 11 and 12, the response we got was ‘He is sleeping.’ Whenever I visited
him at about 11 am he used to wake up around 12/12.30PM, wash himself and then
sit on a chair. In half-an-hour he would say that his back is aching and that
he needed rest. When he was in such a semi conscious state, what papers he
would have signed? Fully aware? It is for the learned people to decide.
Interview: Satyanveshi
‘Visalandhra’ daily (literary supplement)
25-02-2008 (Monday)
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