Career
In his Hundred Petals, Sarma devoted very little space to write about himself but penned what he had seen during his nine-decade-long life. His autobiography emerged as an authentic work on contemporary social, political and cultural conditions. Sarma was born on 6 March 1919 in a traditional Telugu Brahmin family in Anantapur district and later migrated to Alampur in Mahabubnagar district in his childhood along with his family and made the historical town his home.
He devoted half of his life for the revival of Jogulamba temple at Alampur, which was in ruins and fought for construction of flood protection wall to save the historic temple complex.
