Srirangam Srinivasa Rao or Sri Sri (1910-1983) was a popular modern Telugu poet. He was born in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. Sri Sri was the first true modern Telugu poet to write about contemporary issues which afftected day-to-day life of a common man in a style and metre which were not used in classical telugu poetry.

Maha Prasthanam, an anthology of poems, is one of his major works.

Sri Sri had written songs for Telugu films too. His Padavoyi Bharatheeyuda (literally - Start singing O! Indian) of Velugu Needalu (1961), Telugu veera levara (literally - O brave Telugu born, wake up!!) of Alluri Seetha Rama Raju, Nenu saitham(literally - I too have been the fuel for this great activity of building up the world..) of Rudraveena were quite popular.

Movies like Akali Rajyam (literally - the empire of hunger) have been inspired by his works.

External link

• IMDb entry of Srirangam Srinivasa Rao (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0820223/)