Goals: 

"Telusa?" is a forum for TELe discussion of issues related to TELUgu 
SAhityam. Constructive critiques are OK. The scope of "sahityam" 
includes discussion of Telugu literary issues, including historical 
anecdotes about Telugu writers. By Telugu literature we mean the full 
range of topics from ancient to modern, classical to revolutionary, 
prose, poetry, drama, fiction, non fiction, essays, science writings, 
journalistic writings, writing style, issues related to 
standardization and translation (from other languages to Telugu as 
well as from Telugu to other languages). I would also keep discussions 
about (a) teaching Telugu as a second language and (b) bringing Telugu 
into the information age within the scope of these discussions. In 
short, keep the scope broad. The goal is enlighten, educate, or 
entertain.

 Ground Rules: 

Telugu politics, Telugu cinema (save the literary component), missing 
person inquiries, matrimonials, and the like are beyond the scope of 
this forum.

The tone of the discussion should be civil and professional. There is 
no need to drag the discussion into the gutter.

For practical reasons, the length of a posting should be limited. I 
suggest one to two screenfuls of material should be a typical length.

Using "Reply" command should be minimized, unless it is essential to 
quote the original verbatim. Everyone who wants to post should compose 
the piece separately, review it for their own satisfaction, before 
rushing it to post.

Like in print media, there should be some oversight on what is being 
posted. At least a minimum oversight to discourage uncivil behavior. 
The threat of an editorial prerogative should be sufficient to 
discourage misuse of an otherwise powerful medium.

Instead of empty discussion on the Net, we should strive to use this 
medium to polish our thoughts, update our facts, and eventually become 
good at what we want to say and then try to capture the distilled 
thoughts in the form of things that can be captured in the print 
media.

One thing I'd dearly like to see is to be able to post Telugu items in 
Telugu script (I am not opposed to RIT) and read them back in Telugu 
script on my screen without going through elaborate processing on my 
end. That will truly make this effort useful.

V. Rao Vemuri					Ramakrishna S. Pillalamarri	
University of California


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