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Chalapati Rao I.V., shortened from Iyyenki Venkata Chalapati Rao is an Indian educationalist and writer. An erudite scholar, public speaker, a teacher and an editor. Author of over 25 books on education, communication, management and biography of lasting values, and reviewed and wrote Prefaces and Forewords to over two hundred books of well known writers in English and Telugu. He is a visiting faculty  for  many universities, national training institutions and academic staff colleges across the country. He specializes  in communication skills, Indian ethos and culture, purpose of life, personality development and other similar topics.

Early Life
Born in a well to do family in 1923. He lost his father when he was 15 and was brought up by his well read mother. He was highly influenced by the stories his mother narrated to him from Ramayana and Mahabharata. He Graduated from P.R. College Kakinada,(Andhra Pradesh, India). After graduation he moved to Nagpur ( Maharashtra, India) to pursue his long cherished dream of post-graduate study in English Literature.

Professional Life

 * 1946 – 1960 - Started his career as lecturer as subsequently went on to become the Head of the Department of English in both private and government colleges.
 * 1947 – 1971 - Principal of S.R.R. College, Karimnagar (Andhra Pradesh, India) P.R. College, Kakinada (Andhra Pradesh, India ) , both prestigious government degree colleges.
 * 1971 – 1978 - Worked as Deputy Director of Public Instruction, Deputy Director of Higher Education, and later was elevated to a coveted appointment as Professor and Director of State Council of Educational Research and Training at Hyderabad ( Andhara Pradesh, India)

Later Years

 * 1) Registrar of Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages ( CIEFL), Hyderabad.
 * 2) Co-ordinator, Association of Indian Universities, Regional Centre
 * 3) Director, Vivekananda School of  Management, accredited to Newport University, California ( USA )
 * 4) Consultant, Commissionerate of Higher Education
 * 5) Member Secretary of the committee to advise Government in forming State Council of Higher Education
 * 6) Member, Standing Board of Inquiry, S.V.University, Tirupati ( Andhra Pradesh, India)
 * 7) Authored 28 Books on Education, Management, Culture and Translations
 * 8) Visiting Professor / Resource Person for
 * 9) Academic Staff Colleges of Osmania University (India), University of Hyderabad (India),Sri Venkateswara University (India),and Andhra University (India).
 * 10) Indian Airlines Management Training Center
 * 11) Bharat Dynamics Limited (Hyderabad,India)
 * 12) Survey Of India
 * 13) Commissioner of Collegiate and Intermediate Education
 * 14) Ramakrishna Math, Vivekananda Institute of Human Excellence, Hyderabad (India)
 * 15) Chairman, Forum for Higher Education
 * 16) Editor, “Triveni” – 81 year old Literary and Cultural Quarterly of India
 * 17) Editor, “Twilight Life” – Organ of the Association for the care of Elderly

Literary Review
I.V. Chalapati Rao is a well-known and highly respected household name amongst the English reading public. His wit and wisdom is explicitly seen in his writings as well as in his public speeches. Late Swamy Paramathananda of Rama Krishna Math said “ Chalapati Rao’s words not only carry meaning for intellectual but awaken our dormant spirits”  ( Foreword to ‘ Culture Capsules- Art Of Living’ by Prof I.V.Chalapati Rao, june 2002). His literary works are diverse, current and dynamic thereby enthuse the younger generation as well.

Awards and Felicitations

 * Pratibha Rajiv Award 2010 for the Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Education – presented by then Chief Minister of Andhra Prasdesh Shri K.Rosaiah on may 8, 2010
 * Felicitated as Noted Educationist and Author by
 * Prime Minister of India Sri P.V. Narasimha Rao
 * Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Sri T. Anjaiah
 * Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Sri N.T. RamaRao
 * Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Sri K. Rosiah
 * Governor of Andhra Pradesh Smt Kumud Ben Joshi
 * Governor of Andhra Pradesh Sri Krishna kant
 * Governor of Andhra Pradesh Sri Raghunatha Reddy

List of Works
Author of Books in English Translations into English for Central Sahitya Academy, New Delhi (India)
 * 1) Culture capsules – Art Of Living
 * 2) Indian Renaissance
 * 3) Ancient wisdom and Modern Insights
 * 4) Living Through Changing Times
 * 5) Splendors of Andhra Pradesh
 * 6) Life of Mahathma Gandhi (Published by Government of  Andhra Pradesh)
 * 7) Lives of Great Men (Published by Government of Andhra Pradesh)
 * 8) Sankara ( Published by International Centre of Telugu University)
 * 9) From Farm House to Rashtrapati Bhavan ( Biography of President N.Sanjiva Reddy) (Book Links Corp)
 * 10) College teachers and Administrators ( Book Links Corp)
 * 11) Communication and Leadership ( Book Links Corp)
 * 12) Great Lives ( Published of Andhra Pradesh Open University)
 * 13) Serving the Society Through Industry – Life of Sri K V K Raju ( Published by Nagarjuna Group)
 * 14) Durgabhai Deshmukh ( Published by Department of Information and Cultural Affairs )
 * 15) The Fifth Estate
 * 16) Tanguturi Prakasam – Released by Prime Minister Sri P.V.Narasimha Rao ( Book Links Corp)
 * 17) Andhra Ratna Duggirala Gopalakrishnaiah ( Published by Telugu University)
 * 18) Our Centres of Learning
 * 19) Rhythms in the Teaching Culture of Higher Education
 * 20) Let’s be worthy of our Gandhi
 * 21) R.V.K.M.Surya Rao Bahadur – Maharaja of Pithapuram ( Published by Telugu University)-Awarded as “The Best Biography of the Year”
 * 22) Lecture Methods and Auxiliary Means of Higher Education ( Government Press)
 * 23) Use of Library as Enrichment to Teaching ( Monograph) ( Government Press)
 * 24) Examinations in Higher Education (Monograph) (Government Press)
 * 25) Venu Madhav – Mono Acting and Mimicry ( Trust Publisher)
 * 26) Maduri Annapoornayya
 * 27) Vidya rangamulo Samasyalu (Telugu)
 * 1) Thyagaraja’s Kritis
 * 2) Ramadas’s Kirtanas
 * 3) Kshetrayya Padas

Articles

 * 1) Culture inversions and vanishing values
 * 2) Long life and immortality
 * 3) Sweet are the uses of adversity
 * 4) Aspiring writers! Persistence pays!
 * 5) Information Technology (IT) in the new millennium
 * 6) Down sizing bureaucracy
 * 7) Sands of time/time management
 * 8) Creativity and intuition
 * 9) Is memory god’s gift?
 * 10) Interesting facts about famous
 * 11) Writers and artists
 * 12) Meditation – yoga
 * 13) Is not happiness within us?
 * 14) Spicy bits of scientists’ lives
 * 15) A wreath for teachers
 * 16) Heroism of the soldiers of the
 * 17) Minority communities
 * 18) We should give a boost to football
 * 19) Need for inter-faith understanding – Jesus Christ
 * 20) A case for a return of the hero
 * 21) Money, money, money
 * 22) British scholars who loved and propagated
 * 23) Indian wisdom
 * 24) Importance of English in the present globalised scenario
 * 25) Remembering princess Diana
 * 26) Women on the march
 * 27) Tamasoma jyotirgamaya
 * 28) Adversity cannot stop excellence
 * 29) Are religion and psycho-therapy on the Same wave length?
 * 30) Gandhi, “the only man in the east With a sense of humour”
 * 31) Super technology – boon or bane?
 * 32) Music – its myriad faces
 * 33) “My life is my message” – Gandhiji
 * 34) The death defying philosophy of Socrates
 * 35) Is not happiness within us?
 * 36) English on tap but not on top
 * 37) Art of ageing youthfully
 * 38) Pursuit of happiness