Rao) popularly known as Tripura is a famous Telugu short story writer of the 1960s and 1970s.
He was born on 2 September 1928 in Purushottampur Tehsil of Ganjam District of Orissa state, India.
His father was a surgeon and worked in Government Hospital there.Tripura had his initial schooling at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh and completed his M.A.
(English) from Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in 1953.
He did not complete his doctoral thesis on Graham Greene.
Tripura initially worked at various places like Burma, Madanapalli, Visakhapatnam, and Jajpur, before settling down in 1960 at Tripura University, Agartala, in the North Eastern State of Tripura, India.