Book on Telangana Forts had released

Hyderabad, February 7: Now a days, The youth are showing more interest on the History other than social networking sites.According to a survey, The youngsters have more enthusiasm to know the details of history caves, forts and living style of olden days and its civilization etc.They are mostly searching for the history aspects only in the websites as stated in the study.For this aspect,telangana has moved a step forward i.e., A Book released, which named as "Telangana Kotalu"(TELANGANA FORTS) written by Nagabala Suresh Kumar and released here on Monday.The state is dotted with old forts, many which are not being projected properly.The most well-known is the famed Golconda fort in Hyderabad, originally constructed by Kakatiyas of Warangal and ceded to the Bahmanis in 1363 AD. There are several other forts which are little unpopularized over the years.Government adviser K.V. Ramanachary has released the book, who is also the Chairman of Telangana Brahmana Corporation, said there was some purpose in the release of the book in the fort-like Secretariat as it would provide an opportunity to various department heads and others working there to know about the forts in Telangana.He also said that,"There is a need for everybody living in Telangana to know about the history and architecture of the forts in the State as they will throw some light on the past", he added.The 143-page book has historical facts about the forts including Elagandal, Ramagiri, Mulamguru, Nirmal, Jagitiyal, Kotilingala, Utnoor, Vydurya-puram, Medak, Gandhari, Bhuvanagiri, Warangal, Khammam, Deverakonda, Golconda, Rachakonda, Wanaparthy, Kaulas, Gadwal, Ghanpur, Nizamabad, Sirpur, Naganur and Pratapgiri.The author had written only about 25 forts in Telangana, but there was need to study other forts in the State, Mr. Ramanachary suggested. Such books would help make available the glorious history of the land to the future generations, he said and felt that there was need to make short films about the forts in Telangana to enable more and more people know about them.Complimenting the writer s effort in going round the forts, collecting information and bringing it in book form, Commissioner of Information and Public Relations Navin Mittal hoped that the book would be useful to university students, researchers, and chroniclers of history.