Tripuraneni Ramakotaiah

s/o Bhushayya ,went to prison for six months for participating in the salt non coperation movement. (British government levied tax on the common salt used for cooking and hence under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi people were making their own salt from the sea water for which the British Govenment imprisoned who ever was doing it)).

Tripuraneni Hariprasada rao

s/o Venkataratnam, went to prison for six months for fighting in the Indian independence movement in 1930 and six months in 1931 and released under Gandhi-Irwin agreement.

Tripuraneni Radhakrishna rao

s/o Janakiramayya went to prison in 1932 for six months for disobeying the rules implemented by the British rulersand for one year and three months in 1943 for fighting in the Indian independence from the British.

Tripuraneni Subrahmanyam

s/o Nagayya went to prison in the independence movement in 1942 for participating in Quit India movement and released in 1943.

Barrister Tripuraneni Ramaswami Chowdary(S/O Chalamayya)

Ramaswami ChowdaryI is uncle of Ramaswami ChowdaryII(15/1/1887 TO 18/1/1942).

He did his law in London law college(inner temple) although originally went to Dublin. As he refused to wear western clothing he was denied a seat in Trinity College, Dublin and went to Law schools in London to do his training. This was a strong indication to maintain his nationality without any fear and against the odds.

He was refused in his childhood to be taught when he wanted to learn Sanskrit language because he was not born into Brahmin caste. He was so determined to learn Sanskrit and read Vedas,and Puranas, and later critcised all the irrational explanations and stories in them and he succeeded by being trained by the famous Tirupathi Venkatakavulu and did Sathavadhaanams with them. He studied vedas and all sections which became a foundation for his later criticisms about adulteration by the Brahmins.This was a mark of his strong will and determination to overrule the Brahmin supremacy.

He was champion in sports again faced a lot of opposition for admission in the colleges because of his caste and religion. With his talent and determination he made the authorities to crawl to him because the colleges didn’t want to lose award winning sportsman.

He was a poet, and wrote several books to raise the social consciousness and pointing out old obsolete beliefs and customs made by the Brahmin caste to suit their supremacy.Being a lawyer he could not tolerate injustice to anybody and that resulted in the book called Khooni. One of his many famous books is Sootha puranam as a result of his thorough research into all the Puranas by Vyasa.

Similarly he replaced the Kurukshetram war by Palnati war and wrote Bhagavadgita.

As a Chairman of Tenali Municipality he put a stop to animal sacrifice.

His activities to encourage the nationality feeling during the days of the independence movement and other social reforms were innumerable.He also contributed significantly for a separate Andhra state for all telugu speaking people rather than being as a composite Madras state.(Now Tamilnaadu /Chennai)

He reformed the marriage process by translating vedic marriage rules into Telugu language and called Vivaha Vidhi. He opposed the Muhurthams etc which were a predominant part of marriages done by Brahmins.He himself conducted the marriages.

He was a Hetuvadi (one who will always ask why, what and how for any dogmatic statement made by others) and never accepted any thing without rationality and this was the basis for the uplift of the regional communities. He was dubbed as an atheist but from his writings it doesn’t appear like this .

A postage stamp was released by the Indian postal services to honour him.

The title Kaviraju was bestowed upon him as an honour to his poetry,and uplifting books.

There were many other ways his services were recognised and he was honoured by several others.

He was hailed by most but as expected there were some who wanted to throw mud on him to suit their selfishness.

This is only a glimpse of his life.

His life was taken up by Dr K. Surendra for his PH.D thesis in Nagarjuna university and published as a book..

Tripuraneni Gopalakrishnayya

He is the eldest brother of Ramaswamy chowdary.

He was one of the many famous poets coming from the Village Angalur and well known poet and literary person in his times. He was awarded the title for his literary talents and poetry by the then British Governor General Cannaught.

Tripuraneni Gopi Chand

He is the son of Ramaswami chowdary and a very famous writer of all kinds i.e novels, stories, film scripts. His works ar noted for materialism, rationalism, existentialism,realism,humanism and include values and ideas. He was also called a radical humanist. His novel “Panditha Parameswara Sasthri gari veelunaamaa” won the first Sahitya academy award for Telugu novels. A postage stamp was released on his 100th birthday.

Tripuraneni Maharadhi

Coming from the same lineage, he was a famous film script writer and well known for the film Alluri Sitaramaraju , one of the many Indian independence fighters...

Tripuraneni Venkateswara Rao

He was a medical doctor by profession and introduced family planning into the local communities and wrote books on family planning which were essential services to the already growing population in India.

Tripuraneni Sivaprasada Rao

By profession he was a famous high court lawyer. Not only being a famous lawyer he contributed for the development of the town called Gudivada in a number of ways. He made sure that a sub court was started in Gudivada he worked as a director of co-operative training institute, co-operative bank, co-op central stores and contributed a lot. He was a vicepresident of local Homeopathic medical college, and the theosophical society, Also he worked in Ramavilasa sabha and encouraged music contests, and celebrated Thyagaraja’s life on several occasions. He was also vicepresident of Andhra dramatic society, encouraged drama contests and used to distribute prizes. He was the initiator and main contributor for the construction of Kaviraja sahitya vihar in Gudivada for social and literary functions.(Unfortunately it is no longer there as the materialistic world took priority in modern society.)

Tripuraneni Vishnu Sankara Rao

15/12/1915 to 23/03/2004

From Angaluru, Son of Gopaiah Well reputed businessman, noted for his honesty, business ethics, charity, an Advaita teacher and a writer of three books on Advaita philosophy.(Sankara Advaita Vysyamala 1,2,3) www.sankaraadvaita.com

Sachid Anand Tripuraneni (anglicized as S.A. Trip) (U.K)

He is the grandson of Vishnu Sankara Rao. Neurologist and a Multiple sclerosis specialist. Noted for his research work(attained Ph.D from London) into the ways of finding out the extent of nerve damage that occurs following optic neuritis and other forms of relapse following multiple sclerosis by using different retinal imaging techniques and MRI techniques(anterior visual pathway imaging). This is very important because by the nature of the disease multiple sclerosis is very crippling disease and loss of vision or visual impairment will be physically and psychologically detrimental for the well being of the person. So this research is significant as it is useful in monitoring the treatments that improve the optic neuritis and a welcome contribution to the medical science.

Tripuraneni Nilesh (U.S.A)

Child prodigy

Did the notable research on the liquid marbles.

It appears that this study has brought a more precise and broad understanding of the static and kinetic behavior of liquid marbles. Additionally, liquid marbles' applications to the field of digital microfluidics(Microfluidics is the science of manipulating and controlling fluids) have also hitherto been unexplored; a proof-of-principle demonstration seems to suggest that liquid marbles would form-fit the needs of digital microfluidics - efficiently transporting discrete packets of liquid - and perhaps remedy a few of its problems.

Liquid marbles are non-stick droplets(normally aqueous) wrapped by micro-or nano-metrically scaled hydrophobic, colloidal particles(Teflon, polyethylene, lycopodium powder, carbon black, etc.); representing a platform for a diversity of chemical and biological applications. Liquid marbles are also found naturally; aphids convert honeydew droplets into marbles.

Dr Sreeni Tripuraneni

He won the outstanding Entrepreneurial award from the prestigious Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship awards. He is the chairman & CEO of 4GIdentity solutions. APEA awards were selected from a pool of 120 nominations from allover India and South Asia.