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has a collection of over 42,000 gramophone records of
music, dramas and speeches, in around forty Indian
languages and dialects and 30 foreign languages.
Music Scholar, Dancer, Film Historian, Book Reviewer, Art
Critic and Orator, Venkata Anandakumara Krishna Ranga Rao
is truly a connoisseur who defies straightjacket
categorisation. The son of Ravu Janardana Krishna Ranga Rao
- the Zamindar of Chikkavaram and Saraswathi Devi, V A K
Ranga Rao says that he can only read, but is not educated.
And yet, he happens to have guided many research scholars,
directly and indirectly. For 36 years, his dance has been
an offering on Sri Krishna Jayanti in Karvetinagaram and on
Ashada Sudhdha Saptami in Srinivasa Mangapuram temples near
Tirupati.
 He
believes that a person has different dimensions at the same
time. And if his passion for factual documentation takes
him into the past, he reaffirms, that it is clearly
grounded in the present. "For me", he says, "It is all a
continuum".
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