*Kanyasulkam* is a Telugu play by Gurajada Apparao. Its title refers to a marriage payment practice and the play's satire attacks damaging social customs. Drama allows characters to speak in recognisable social voices, which made colloquial language an artistic and critical tool. A police exam usually wants the author–work pair, but understanding the form helps eliminate distractors: it is a play, not a river project, GI product or devotional song cycle.

The use of spoken Telugu in literary writing sits within wider language debates. Gidugu Venkata Ramamurthy also argued for comprehensible usage, yet he did not write *Kanyasulkam*. A one-line “colloquial Telugu” clue may be ambiguous unless the question includes the named play or language movement. Read the entire stem. Vizianagaram's district page is strong evidence for Gurajada's local association, while a literary edition is better for line-by-line analysis of the drama. Avoid attributing every famous reform slogan of the period to one writer.

Worked example: Kanyasulkam is a Telugu drama associated with Gurajada, with colloquial language and social critique. It is not a reform law or a government scheme. An exam stem can ask for author, literary form or topic; mark which field it requests. If options include another Telugu writer, the work title is the deciding clue, not shared regional origin.

Active recall: Is *Kanyasulkam* a play, poem or novel? Which reformer is its author, and which language reformer is often paired nearby?