A handle dedicated to Telugus & Telugu Heritage beyond Andhra, Telangana. From Kandy to Ganges, from the Ghats to the Eastern sea.

Joined June 2020
Dear Telugus, we've noticed frequent confusion btw The Telugu Collective (@telugucollectv) and our account (@DTeluguCollect). The former has long promoted Telugu literature on Instagram. To honor their work and prevent mix-ups, we are rebranding as The Telugu Heritage Collective.
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Same goes to the telugus of CBpur, ballary, Bengaluru, kolar & many regions.
Majority of Kannada speakers in AP are not migrants. They arnt migrants in British period as well and also post Independence. And most of them concentrate in one area, in border regions of KA.
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Unfortunately, Telugus make up a large chunk of these kind. I am a Telugu too, with Karnataka roots. I am proud of Telugu and equally proud of Karnataka and Kannada but I always identify as Karnataka person or Karnataka Telugite.
What i understand on Twitter is, Some people here post hateful tweet against their own ancestral roots especially against the Language just to please the people from the state they live in. No matter what, never forget your roots.
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Replying to @BharadiaSamarth
It was big mistake to add undivided kolar in Karnataka, today telugus are spreading all over Karnataka saying they are also kannadigas
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97 % of Mantralayam is telugu, you could find kannada only in temple premises and devotees , whole of United anantapur district has only 3%kannada, that's not the case of telugu in kolar,Chikkaballapur, bangalore,hosur,challakere,pavagada,ballari city,raichur etc
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Two Telugu men who saved India during crisis. When PV Narasimha Rao became PM in 1991, India faced severe Balance of Payments crisis, foreign exchange reserves could barely cover two weeks of imports. It was during this time PVNR took bold steps, in liberalization, slashing import tariffs, encouraging exports. When he left office in 1996, India was far more stable. The other was former RBI Governor YV Reddy, whose conservative approach, ensured Indian banking survived the 2008 sub prime crisis, that wrecked the banking sector in US and West. He prevented Indian banks from investing heavily in complex derivatives, subprime assets, due to which they escaped the fate of major US banks. Also ensured stricter norms for lending, discouraged excessive credit growth. These two men, did not make a big show of whatever they done, did their job quitely, no PR, no hype, no chest thumping. Just a solid grounded approach, rooted in what they believed was the best for India. True leadership is what these men displayed in a hour of crisis. India should be forever grateful to these two men.
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Start a superstition: if someone else wears clothes you’ve worn for a day or more, all your good luck transfers to them. Voilà! This abuse will stop within a year or two. If you want to fast-track it, fund all the major babas across India’s regions and ask them to spread this superstition.
🚨 We tried ethnic wear for kids. We killed it in one season. Last year, we ran a small pilot. Returns were decent. But when we dug into the numbers, the truth was hard to ignore. Kids outgrow clothes in months. And no parent wants to spend good money on an outfit their child will wear exactly once. So we shut the category down during the pilot itself. Better to learn cheap than scale a mistake. Today I saw a video of girls returning their garba outfits to ecommerce platforms after wearing them through the nights. Wear it. Click photos. Return it. That's the reality of building a consumer brand in India. You're not just fighting competitors. You're fighting a mindset where use-and-return feels normal. Some categories look huge on paper and still don't work. Knowing when to walk away is also a founder's job. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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There will come a day when all IITs and central institutions are monopolised by Telugoons. 🙂
Advanced IIT-JEE Top ten toppers in last 19 years data shows Andhra 36 and Telangana 29 vs Karnataka 1. And these Kannadigas saying Telugus are illeterates🤡🤡 Such a funny fellows they are😂😂
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In Karnataka, all non-coastal districts and except those bordering Maharashtra, would have Telugu as the second most spoken language if all Telugus declared Telugu as their mother tongue on paper. Kolar, Chikkaballapur and potentially Bengaluru Rural would even have Telugu as the first language. The map would be yellow all over those regions. Telugus are not realising their potential. If only they voted as a bloc, they would be an unstoppable force capable of setting a lot of things straight, both in the South and across the rest of the country.
Just see this and and any one one xan believe telugus came to tamilnadu to save tamils from muslims or ran away feom muslim attack in their areas. Urdu language isnthensexond largest language in telangana and andhra. 😺
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ఒరేయ్ ఏప్రాసి వెధవ.. In Telugu it is PROLU! Ex: Bhattiprolu, Cheprolu! Leave Telugu alone, we have nothing to do with Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam. We are South Central Dravidian. We branached out from Proto Dravidian even before Tamil and Kannada were independent languages.
This is another proof Kannads Prakrit speakers Tamizh root words with U sound taken into Prakrit as O sound Tamizh-Prakrit-Kannad Kannad still using PRAKRIT words Tamil have root word for Pola of Prakrit.Prakrit dont have Pulam- Polam Pozhil-Polal-Polalu-Holalu Kulam-Kola
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In line with what I said earlier ! 40% of TN has Telugu ancestry. It’s all about time. Tamilnadu Telugus should start using Surname and declare their Mother Tongue without fear and fight for re opening Telugu Schools which were forcibly shut down. Jai Telugu Talli ! #Andhra #Telangana #Tamilnadu #Telugu #Tamil #TFI #OG #Culture
I'm Sorry to TELUGU friends, Earlier i said 10% of Tamilnadu speak TELUGU, now Annamalai Himself saying 40% SPEAK TELUGU IN TAMILNADU😎😎 We WILL REPLACE TAMIL WITH TELUGU IN 10 YEARS and make it dead language like how we made KANNADA
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MUST READ.
Why Old Brahmi inscriptions of Tamil lands are not a proof for Sangam literature This is Arattamalai(pugalur) inscription 1.mutā amaṇaṉ yāṟṟūr ceṅkāyapaṉ uṟaiy 2. kō ātaṉ cel irumpoṟai makaṉ 3. peruṅkaṭuṅkōṉ makaṉ iḷaṅ 4. kaṭuṅkō iḷaṅkō āka aṟutta kal This is the Brahmi into English lipi I wrote this reply to my Tamil friend And explained my logic and reasoning So what is new here?! It was there inscribed on the rocks by Jains who brought the Brahmi script to South Kannada and Tamil region came under Jain influence Jains were like Christians, they used local language for propagation, so early tamil inscriptions are found but they are not developed like Naneghat or Junagadh or any Sanskrit/ prakrit inscriptions of same time period (I asked you @Thought_Wander, to show one such matching inscription of scale and size in poetic metre in Tamil, you didn’t answer with matching complex sophisticated inscriptions of same time ! Because Tamil at that time had only oral traditions / folklore and Jains brought the script tried to write Tamil and needed few changes for the Tamil phonemes so they changed those letters a little and wrote these inscriptions which gives basic info of the Jain donations for their monasteries ! So why even this rudimentary inscriptions are not found in Andhra Telugu lands?! Andhra had the highest viharas( Bihar got its name based on Vihars, but Andhra has more Buddhist Vihars than Bihar) It was the propaganda base for Buddhism, Nagarjuna Konda is the epicentre of Buddhism spread to Southeast Asia and Lanka, please read Buddhism in Andhra But Buddhism was like Islam( Arabic) Buddhists used their Magadha Prakrit (Pali) thats why the Andhra lands which was heavily influenced by Buddhism did not use Telugu but Prakrit brahmi to write ! The oral traditions of Telugu people were recorded too but in Prakrit, Hala’s Gaha Sattasai ( it’s ditto Aga naanooru) but written in Prakrit! It is dated 1st century but it maybe later work as per Tieken (read Kavya of South India by Herman Tieken) So I firmly believe, the dating of sangam should be 7-9th CE when we get the proper Tamil Inscription with long sentences (Thiruvallarai etc) Before that it was orally available maybe even thousand years before common era and the Banar kula mendicants carried those songs orally for long time! few Prakrit- Tamil inscriptions doesn’t prove Sangam was there at that time! It was later composed including this info on the walls and all this were made into Anthology, composed new poems too in archaic style by dedicated expert poets in later Pandya court! Kannada Tamil and Telugu all have their own lipi Inscriptions within few decades so no big difference The architectural structures matching Tamil antiquity claim is not yet found! In fact andhra had sophisticated building structures (ex. Amaravati stupa) which needs much more technology science complex society to execute such structures, so writing poem was not that difficult but they were done in prakrit not in Telugu reason as I said earlier! So own language own lipi, long inscriptions, continuity in literature matching with other similar background cultures adjacent to Tamil who had regular touch all support, 7-9th century for sangam within a century Bhakti and Kambar.. Or else why there is a 1000 year gap between Sangam and Bhakti, Kambar? How logical is it to say, Tamils after having sangam in early 200 BC slept and woke up only after 800 CE! I can list so many such inconsistencies That’s why I ask you to read Herman and answer him bro
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Srisailam, Mantralayam, Tirumala and Srikalahasti attract countless Kannadiga devotees, just as Dharmasthala, Sringeri, Kukke Subramanya and other Karnataka temples attract Telugu devotees. Hindu temples belong to all Hindus, irrespective of their language or state.
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Mass shooting foiled at Aurora Venkateswara Swamy Temple in Aurora, Illinois - One of the oldest Hindu temples in the USA. The mass shooter - 19-year-old Alexandros Paporakis was just Jammed rifle away from killing worshippers. arrested. A Neo-Nazi with white surrealist views held a manifesto and plotted mass shooting targeting Indian worshippers. He drive from Palatine with a modified AR-style rifle, fortunately the weapon jammed. Having returned home he searched online for a fix to unjam the rifle as well sent a Vedio to colleague for a fix . The colleague called the police. The current - would have been tragedy - follows an attack on a Hindu temple in Ohio two weeks earlier. @TV9Telugu @ANI @ndtv @VHPDigital @sangamtalks @pGurus1 @PTI_News @ataworld @telugu_american @TeluguAmericans @TANAsocial @TTHCollective
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Will Tamil Nadu allow Telugu to be taught in schools? Being generous is good.. but one sided love is fatal.
“We will ensure Tamil Nadu receives its required water, even during shortages. Chennai has received 4.08 TMC of water so far this year. Water-sharing must be driven by cooperation, not conflict.” - AP CM Chandrababu Naidu 🙌
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First, we need to change people's mindsets and thought processes. Tamil media and influencers often seem to foster hostility towards devotees visiting religious sites, especially Arunachalam. If Andhra had another city with the same religious significance, we would probably have a Tirupati 2.0, with universities, colleges, schools and hospitals run by the temple trust. Good roads, better infrastructure ñand countless small businesses catering to pilgrims, with signboards in all major languages. Instead, what we often see is hostility towards pilgrims, fuelled by social media influencers and even people in positions of influence. Of course, not all locals feel this way, but this negative attitude makes it difficult to develop Arunachalam into a pilgrimage hub on the scale of Tirupati. Pilgrims should be seen as an opportunity. Tamils need a shift in attitude.
When is Tamil Nadu Govt doing this?? We have several cities from Madurai, Palani, Tiruvannamalai, Srirangam, Rameshwaram, Kumbakonam, Tiruchendur etc here. We need to tap the booming religious tourism in India... @CMOTamilnadu @RameshOffcl 🙏
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బెంగుళూరులో సెటిల్ అయినవాళ్ళు కాదు @ItsSumaKanakala అక్కా.. బెంగుళూరు స్థానిక తెలుగువారే చాలా మంది ఉన్నారు.. బెంగుళూరు, కోలారు, చినబల్లాపురం, హోసూరు, కుప్పం, హిందూపురం, మదనపల్లె are one cultural unit with majority of speakers being Telugu and Telugus have been living here since time immemorial which is why it's feels like home to Telugu settlers from Andhra too.
Exactly what this girl said is true, BENGALURU is completely TELUGU dominated, even Kannadigas watch shows like Suma Adda , Suma is more popular than Rukmini Vasanth right now, Many learn telugu watching Suma garu shows and pre release events🔥🔥🔥
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Not surprised at all 😅
During Kaveri agitations long back, I heard one incident Two youngsters fighting over Kaveri rights! As usual Tamil is older Vs Kannada to kings etc One for TN and other for Karnataka Obviously both were Telugus, one from Kolar and other from Coimbatore 😊
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Replying to @TTHCollective
Karnataka has a massive telugu origin population probably at 20% including both telugu origin kannada speakers and telugu speaking ones.
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The reach and soft power of the Telugu language often amaze me. During e-lafdas on X, most Telugus troll Tamils and Kannadigas in English or Hindi but the other parties almost always use at least some passable Telugu. Anyway, in this case, either he is a local Bangalorean Kannadiga who knows Bangalore Telugu or a person of Telugu origin who has adopted a Kannada identity. Anyway, I always find it amusing. 😅
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According to the 1881 Mysore State Census, the Mysore Kingdom had a 15% Telugu speaking population. For your reference, below is a map of the Mysore Kingdom as it stood in 1881. The majority of those 15% Telugus lived in the areas to the right of the green line on the map, in the eastern Mysore districts, which today correspond to Bengaluru, Kolar, Chikkaballapura, Koratagere and Pavagada. Also, Mysore was the only state that was not reorganized linguistically in 1956. Instead, the entire Mysore State was merged with Kannada speaking districts from the former Hyderabad and Bombay States, giving rise to the modern state of Karnataka, which had a 66% Kannada speaking population at the time. If you ask me, I would add about 5% to 10% to the 1881 census figures, bringing the estimate to around 20–25%. That additional 5% to 10% would account for Telugu origin people who had fully assimilated into Kannada society, especially from the districts located to the left of the line on the map.
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