Vennelakanti PrakasamDr. Vennelakanti Prakasam (born 1943) belongs to a village Telugurayapuram of PSR Nellore District of Andhra Pradesh, where the early seeds of his cognition were sown. Kullur and Nellore where he had his school and college studies played their role i nurturing his cognition. BA (Special) with English as the main subject and Telugu & History as additional subjects with excellent teachers strengthened his ideational equipment. His 1962-66 stay in Nagpur, first as a student of Nagpur University (MA in English) and then as a lecturer in English at Dr. Ambedkar College of Arts and Commerce on Deeksha Bhoomi had a wonderful metamorphotic effect on his cognition of society and history. He shifted to Hyderabad in 1966 and has stayed on there with some gaps: 1969-72 (University of York, UK), 1977-78 (UPSC, Delhi), 1978-90 (Punjabi University, Patiala), 1985 Feb-May (Fulbright Fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, University of California, Berkeley), 2002-04 (EFLU campus, Lucknow). This rolling around founded his rambling cognizance. His D.Phil. from York (Linguistics, 1972), Ph.D. from NALSAR Law University (Law, 2013) and his Post-Doctoral work on Stylistics and Comparative Religious studies have made his cognizance a wide spectral rainbow. Read More Read Less