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A few remaining copies of 'Telugu Paluku', the souvenir of the 10th TANA Conference are being made available to SCIT readers for free. If you are interested, please send a check or money order for $4.00 (to cover postage and handling charges; you can pick them up yourself for free if you live in the area) written to U.R. Veeramachaneni, and mail to UR Veeramachaneni 807 Heritage Drive Mount Prospect, IL 60056. Expect 2-3 weeks for delivery. Regards. --- V. Chowdary Jampala PS: Some excerpts from the reviews of the Souvenir follow: ------ Pemmaraju Venugopala Rao says in Telugu Jyoti: "...Instantly I recognized it as a valuable edition to my library... In its form, content, artistic display, editorial discretion and the team work that goes with it, this souvenir will be the new standard for any future attempts." ------- Vemuri Venkateswara Rao says in TANA Patrika: Telugu Paluku, Souvenir of the 10th TANA Conference - A Review (TANA Patrika Editor's note: The reviewer, Sri Venkateswara Rao Vemuri, a well known writer, was the editor of an earlier volume of Telugu Paluku, the souvenir of the 5th TANA Conference at Los Angeles, 1985.) Webster defines "souvenir" as "something kept ... as a reminder of a place, an occasion, or a person; keepsake." This souvenir is worthy of keeping as a memento. Very few published by various Telugu organizations come close to this one. Some were good for keeping in a bookshelf. This one? I will put this in my living room coffee table. Thumbing through the 300 odd pages of the souvenir is like sitting in an art appreciation class or walking through an art gallery. The multicolored plates, interspersed throughout the book, were followed by explanations about the significance or history of that piece. For the first time, I learned about the very existence of well over 30 Telugu artists, their works, their media, and about art itself. I always wondered why a country that pioneered the art of abstract thinking did not bother to bring abstraction to art. Finally, this souvenir showed me that modern Telugu artists are filling that void. If you have not yet obtained a copy, buy one today. If you already have one, do not lend it to any. Apart from the artwork, the whole souvenir has an artistic look. The cover is impressive - front and back for different reasons. The organization of pages and arrangement of other material is tasteful. The entire volume is organized as six bilingual sections. The Welcome section (24 pages) contained the usual stuff like dedications, messages and committee photos. In the Invitees section (30 p) one finds nostalgic articles about Telugu culture, mostly in Telugu, by distinguished people from India that were specially invited for the Conference. Contributions to New Generations and New Horizons (54 p) are primarily in English and dominated by younger writers from the U.S. The next section is on Andhra Art (26 p). Two Decades (32 p) is nostalgia confined to a recapitulation of the progress, or lack thereof, during past two decades. The last section, Kaleidoscope (70 p), mostly in Telugu,