Nannaya, Tikkana, Yerrapragada, Srinatha, Molla(poet), and Tarikonda Venkamamba made Telugu language"The Italian of the
East"- lingua franca for religious, musical composition and philosophy.
The minister, Tarek El Molla, told Reuters the other vessel would
stay behind as part of the petroleum ministry's strategy to maintain energy supplies for the country.
In 1985, the year Molla was born,
former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi signed the Assam Accord, which said that anyone who entered the state after March 24, 1971, would be classified a foreigner.