Nadella Purushottama Kavi

Biography Nadella was born in a Telugu-speaking Brahmin family of Haritasa gotra he died on 27 November 1938.

Works He started the magazine Budhajana Vidheyani in 1886, he worked as headmaster in Hindu Highschool starting in 1887, after which In 1890 he started a Hindu School and Hindu Bala Samajam. In 1879, he wrote the yakshagana Ahalyasankramdanam. In 1890 he published Harischandra, a play, in his magazine. His works in Telugu include AhalyasankrandanaM (1883), Harischandra (1917), Parijatapaharanam, Sarangadahra, Droupadi vastrapaharanam, Chandrahasa (1916) and Harikatha rahasanam (1922). He wrote 32 plays in the rupaka format between 1884 and 1886 in Hindustani. He staged them in Machilipatnam and other towns in Andhra Pradesh. Kavi occasionally took the part of Sutradhar on the stage.