Tummapudi

Tummapudi is the village that located on the Tenali-Mangalagiri-Vijayawada highway, on the bank of Bakingh-Ham Canal, which gives a beautiful look to this village.

Tummapudi village is a historical and famous village for its culture and history since freedom fighting in India. Our village filled with greenish look by the crops grown by the farmers.

It is the village that gave birth to many famous and honourble Persons like Sri Suryadevara Sanjiva Dev.

Sanjeev Dev is a name to reckon with among the few who belong to that genre of multi-faceted geniuses whose works - be they with pen, palette or even camera - reflect a human touch actuating a contemplative mood and hence contemporaneity for all times.A humanist to the core, Sanjeev was born in a family of farmers in Tummapudi village near Guntur in 1914. Possessed with an indomitable genius of a mind and a heart replete with humanism, but devoid of a formal education, he carved a niche for himself as a self-taught and sell-evolved personality of a celebrity in creative writing, transliterating his aesthetic imagery with searching insight into humanistic vocabulary of Telugu and English (both in the idiom of prose and poetry), besides achieving an enviable grip on Urdu, Hindi, Bengali and French. He extensively toured the Himalayas and had an opportunity to come in close contact with stalwarts Asitkumar Halder, Rahul Sankritayan, Nicolos Rorico and the likes at the young age of 23.

The "Grey and green", "Blue blooms", "Her life", "Bio-symphony" in English, "Tegina Gnapakaalu", "Rooparupaalu", "Rasarekhalu", "Deeptidhaara", "Smrithibimbaalu" and "Gatamloki", besides many a critique, letters (both published in standard dailies and weeklies) and prefaces to innumerable works by reputed writers are only but a few examples of his priceless contribution to literature. No wonder, Andhra university awarded him D.Litt.