Pochampalli? Pochampally?

I am considering what it means

To have a last name of a village,

I am even thinking what that name means

And how it is related with that name

Ages back my forefathers moved to this place

And spread over around that place in all the local regions

I come from the family of Pochampally,

A village in the district Nalgonda in Andhra Pradesh

The moment I think of the place I came from, 

The state of Andhra Pradesh, I realize 

 How great the History of AP has been

It was formed as a state based on Linguistic basis 

of a common language of Telugu from all the erstwhile 

southern regions of India, after the sacrifice of 

The great soul who starved till he reached heavens

Who was, Potti Sreeramulu, from AP.

I also think of the great civilizations 

that ruled the area and the great culture 

my language held, and still holds as a seat of culture

Great poets of country lore and literature

Held high positions in palaces and kingdoms

Come to my mind and appear so strong

Coming to the name Pochampally, 

which I rewrote as Pochampalli, 

Could mean, in my view, Pochamma +Palli

And Pochamma is Pochi plus amma

Pochi may have been a young girl or village damsel

Who may have been in love with the Lord Shiva himself

For husband, for a Hindu woman is like Lord Shiva

So they call Pati Parameshwar

I am not sure why villagers pray to the Goddess Pochamma

The lady called Pochi or Pocha

Was she a girl, taken away by force in marriage with a king?

Was she someone who gave up their life so as not to fall in the hands of another man?

Did Pochamma fight for the village against tyranny and save the people?

Did she vanish all of a sudden in a wild forest and they call the place 

By her name? Was that why the place was surrounded by forests all around?

I know one person who brought credit to the village,

His name is Ramachandra Reddy, 

Who donated his property to the cause of the saint

Vinoba Bhave, from Maharashtra, and earned a new name

For the village, since then: it was called Bhoodaan Pochampally

Which means Pochampally, that donated land, for the poor and downtrodden.

So I am from that place and call myself Uma Pochampalli.... Sounds different,

But the change of y to i in the end is to say I am Pochampally, 

Pochampalli I am!

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Vegesna Foundation and its efforts in promoting culture while fund raising for differently capable children

This is a Saga from twenty five years.

The Cultural exchange in USA with music as a fund raising event started for a reason

Seven years back a family tried to commit suicide
Parents died but a little girl was alive losing limbs
That girl was saved by Shri Vamsee Ramaraju garu
To save children of such nature and many other handicapped children the Vegesna Foundation has taken up to bring about change in the lives of those individuals who were allowed to grow into individuals, who were given education and healthcare.
Vamsee Ramaraju garu spoke about the young children needing care.
Houston has helped the cause to uplift the lives of the handicapped children.
Vamsee garu has organized several events of high level of cultural activities.
Some of the international organizations that promised to help transfer funds were irregular in sending funds to India.
So Vegeshna Foundation was registered in USA
However the funds collected by Vegesna were not issued once sent to INDIA.
So in the US, Vanguri Foundation came up to rescue the handicapped. Dr. Vanguri Chitten Raju garu has generously arranged for the Vegesna funds to be processed with no restrictions, as it is a US based non Profit Organization

Vanguri Foundation is a nonprofit organization that helps in publishing books, preserving culture and helping several organizations.
No one bothers about the handicapped children when it comes to microlevel management.

However, with the help of Vanguri Foundation that is funding the music programs, better care is possible towards the care of children who are physically and mentally challenged.
Among the children  until November 2011, that Vegesna supported, 10 students are engineers and 10 students studying medicine.
Vamshi Ramaraju garu takes effort to visit USA and collects funds for handicapped. So he encourages artists and promotes art and cultural programmers and they also do fundraising. They are doing the celebrations of Ghantasala and other great singers by local and international talents to perform the world wide tours. They are asked to perform songs from old melodies.
There should be a channel for transferring funds and channelize the transporting of those funds to the parent country from the sponsoring country.
They do these programs because there are families depending on the efforts of the people who are fund raising
They have to bear the expenses of the artists and the tour expenses such as transport and hotel stay. During 2011,
Vinod babu
Balakameshwar rao garu
Mani sastri garu
 Geetanjali (vijayalakshmi)
Sharada garu

participated.

He made friends with artists and took the permission of the families to allow him to undertake the tours around the world
They are doing musical concerts relentlessly almost establishing world tours
Their idea is to create a corpus fund, Vamsi Ramaraju garu quipped, if Jitender Reddy garu of NATA gives 7 Crores, The fund will be created
Singer Vijayalakshmi garu also known as Gitanjali is thankful for being invited to participate in the world tour
All the singers thanked for the great efforts
They are planning to sing songs from the past 80 years
All the melodies from old films
 Balakameshwar rao garu, apara ghantasala thanked by singing a song from Tenali rama Krishnudu -Chesedi emito
Children are given catering food when they have fund raising
Normally they are given ordinary meals but they are also given care and provided an opportunity to develop them into well educated and developed individuals and also responsible citizens of the world.

This year Vegesna Foundation is back again, with old melodies from golden films to new films. This year the new singer from India is Krishna Prasad, who sang a melodious prayer to Ganapathi, as a gayatri mantra. Mani Sastry garu, Balakameswararao Tata, Akhila, Suman Mangu and Krishna Prasad have sung in this evening’s musical night.

They have performed in the Arya Samaj bhawan in Houston, starting their annual tour all around US to fund raise for the physically and mentally challenged children as well as adults.

The program in Houston is organized by Vanguri Foundation and Mani Sastry.

Mrs. Mani Sastry has hosted the guests from India.