[2] Ganti Jogi Somayaji was born in a Telugu Brahmin family at Anakapalli, Visakhapatnam district in 1900.
and obtained Vidwan degree in Telugu and Sanskrit languages in 1926.
He has joined Pachaiyappa's College as Lecturer of Sanskrit and worked for 3 years.
He has joined Andhra University in 1933 as Telugu lecturer and worked there till 1963.
Dr. Ravi Ranga Rao gave the annual lecture on "Conciseness in Poetry" in 2010.