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Tripuraneni Ramaswamy Chaudari was born in the year 1886. He was a prominent figure in Telugu theatre. He was a man of rationalist outlook and outspoken frankness. He also strongly pleaded for prose drama instead of the then popular musicals in Telugu theatre. Tripuraneni Ramaswamy Chaudari was a barrister-at-law by profession, and was a great nationalist, too. Chaudari wrote three pioneering plays in which he questioned the conventional interpretations of Indian epics. In Knrukshetra sangramam i.e. Kurukshetra Conflict' in 1911, he championed Duryodhana's cause. According to him, the Pandavas did not have any moral right to ask for a share in the kingdom. Likewise their victory was unethical. Sambuka vadha i.e. 'Killing of Sambuka' in 1920 is based on an incident from the Ramayana in which Rama was said to have killed the sage Sambuka for religious reasons. Chaudari argues that Rama's deed reflects the intrigue of the higher communities in eliminating the low-caste Sambuka for resorting to penance and other Vedic rituals.
The theme of Khuni i.e. 'Murder' in 1935 is drawn from the Bhagavata Purana. Viswanatha Satyanarayana had already dramatized the story of Vena Raju, justifying his murder. Chaudari wrote Khuni as a riposte to prove that Vena was one of the earliest rationalists and, being a Dravidian, became a victim of the Aryan invasion. For Chaudari, Vena interrogated the veracity of the traditional attitude to the epics. Tripuraneni Ramaswamy Chaudari died in 1943.
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