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“I always remember Triveni because in my formative years, it had a decisive effect on my thinking and instilled the spirit of patriotism more than any other journal or periodicalâ€�ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý
P. V. Narsimha Rao
(From a letter to The Editor, Triveni)

After having lost touch with Prof. Chalapati Rao, one fine afternoon I think, he surfaced with a copy of Triveni.  In those days, Triveni was something which was our staplefood.  I have said this many times during our younger days - we were fed on it like mother’s milk.  I was overjoyed to find that Triveni had not closed.  So I could say that persons of my generation are grateful to Prof. Chalapati Rao for having continued it. We should all put our heads together and see that Triveni attains its glory.  He is holding it with great courage, determination but then it is too much to do for one individual. He is also getting on years. But, Triveni should never, never stop. 

We had Ramanand Chatterjee’s Modern Review, not many people must have heard about it.  The spirit of nationalism was nurtured by some magazines in India - Bharathi, Triveni. Out of them only Triveni survives and some how we do not have vehicles of culture being read, being published, being used in the numbers in which India deserves it. No, they are not there. There are a lot of publications but publications like the Triveni have to be multiplied to a very large extent.  There is some distortion in the minds of the younger generation today.  They are very good, very bright, absolutely top class in their studies and intellect but there is something that needs to be felt indepth and that comes from Triveni and that came from Ramanand Chatterjee’s Modern Review. That is what is lacking now.

*Excerpts from the speech delivered on 2^nd October, 2002 during the release of the book Art of Living authored by Prof. I. V. Chalapati Rao, published by Sri Yabaluri Raghavaiah Memorial Trust.