Thanks to AMMA

for giving me life

Thanks to MUSIC
for making me alive

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Sound of poetry
(Anthology of Telugu Poems)

LALASA
(Sri Bala)

PUBLISHED BY
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All rights reserved

First published in March 2009 by SriBala

Design: Sri Bala & Akshaya
Process & Printing : Himalaya Graphics,
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