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22 january 1940 srikakulam gidugu venkata ramamurthy parvathalapeta , srimukhalingam , srikakulam district rao sahib , kalaprapoorna 29 august 1863 gidugu ramamurthy2.jpg gidugu venkata ramamoorty
 gidugu venkata ramamurthy , గిడుగు వెంకట రామమూర్తి .
gidugu venkata ramamoorty

gidugu venkata ramamurthy -lrb- 1863-1940 -rrb- was a telugu writer and one of the earliest modern telugu linguists and social visionaries during the british rule .
he championed the cause of using a language comprehensible to the common man -lrb- ` vyavaharika bhasha ' -rrb- as opposed to the scholastic language -lrb- ` grandhika bhasha ' -rrb- .
