Achanta Sarada Devi

Achanta Sarada Devi was one of the atypical woman writers of the fifties in terms of her choice of themes and developing a

style of her own.She is married to the artist and writer Achanta Janakiram who, she says, encourages and influences her. From 1954 to 1977 she was professor of Telugu at the Padmavathi Women's College in Tirupati. While most of the writers in the fifties and sixties wrote about family issues such as women’s education and

economic freedom, a few dealt with women’s identity and somber reflections on life. Sarada Devi chose themes of philosophical

and ponderous nature, submerged in pensive mood. Some of her most famous stories such as "The Escaped Parrot"

[paaripoyina chilaka] and okanaati atithi [One Night Guest] fall into that categ