N. Gopi is an eminent Telugu poet, a noted literary critic and a well-known academician-administrator. His over 50 books include poetry collections, anthology of essays, travelogues and translations. Many of his poems have been translated into a number of Indian and foreign languages. His long poem Jalageetham' (Water Song) is considered a milestone in his literary career. It is a celebration of water as well as a prayer to water in the Vedic mode. This book contains the same poem which has been translated in Urdu by Rahmat Yousuf Zai.