MaNaSu (Mannam Narasimham Subbamma) Foundation is a non-profit organization established in 2006, focuses on the preservation and promotion of Telugu literature and culture through large-scale digitization, publication, and translation projects. It has undertaken extensive voluntary literary digitization efforts in India.
History MaNaSu Foundation was founded in 2006 in Bengaluru by Mannam Venkata Rayudu, an electronics engineer and entrepreneur, along with his brothers Dr. Gopi Chand Mannam, a cardiac surgeon and philanthropist, and Dr. Mannam Chandra Mouli, a journalist and book publisher. The organization's name is an acronym honoring the founders' parents, Mannam Narasimham and Subbamma.
Activities Digitization Since its inception, MaNaSu Foundation has digitized over 1.3 lakh Telugu books, 70,000 magazines, and more than 2.5 crore pages, making these cultural resources freely accessible. In 2018, a dedicated digitization center was set up in Varikuntapadu, SPSR Nellore district, Andhra Pradesh, focusing on high-quality digitization and local skill development.
Publications Complete works of Telugu authors:
Rachakonda Viswanatha Sastry Kalipatnam Rama Rao SriSri Beenadevi Gurajada Appa Rao Patanjali Jashuva Sripada Subrahmanya Sastry
Translations and special publications While Sowing Sandals... Tales of a Telugu Pariah Tribe by Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough, a pioneering sociological study on the Madiga community, translated into Telugu The Biography of Sir Arthur Cotton by Lady Hope, translated by Kavana Sarma Patikella Telugu Katha (Twenty Five Years of Telugu Stories), anthology of selected Telugu stories from 1990 to 2015
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