Namini Subrahmanyam Naidu

Namini Subrahmanyam Naidu is a famous Telugu writer from Chittoor district of Andhra pradesh, India. His stories have received wide acclaim owing to the depiction of his life experiences as stories in Rayalaseema dialect. His stories have first been published in Andhra Jyothy newspaper during 1980s and 1990s. Namini was born in 1948 in Mittur, Chittoor district. He hails from an agricultural family. He completed his Primary schooling in Mittur and High school in a neighboring village Venakatapuram. He did his M.Sc from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati. After completing his post graduation, he joined as a sub-editor in Eenadu in Tirupati. After having worked there for a year and half, he shifted to Hyderabad. He joined Udayam, a daily newspaper launched by Dasari Narayana Rao. During this period, he started writing an anthology of short stories named Pachanaaku Saakshiga. Later, he joined Andhra Jyothi upon an invite from ABK Prasad. After 8 months, he started working in Tirupati edition of Andhrajyothi and shifted to his hometown, Mittoor. During his tenure as weekly editor of the Andhra Jyothi, he got into controversy for having published a long story Ravana Josyam, by D.R. Indra. Though he received physical threats and faced intimidation from some sections of people, he went ahead and published two parts of the three-series story.