In her later years, Lata was criticized by purists for her drinking habit, which she defended in her book, antarangachitram (1965).
Her father used to offer her a sip from his drink occasionally, wrote Anjaneya Sarma. Lata spent most of her time with her father at these gatherings sporting liquor and literature. He also, it would appear, entertained literary gatherings at home. Her father had inherited considerable wealth which he squandered on women, liquor and gambling. Lata’s ancestors enjoyed a zamindari lifestyle, and Lata was raised as a darling child in her family. But, Oh God, this flame is burning the delicacy of the flower. After resting for a while, probably he looked for clay to complete the form but did not find it and then he grabbed an aravinda flower and a bunch of flames available at hand, put them in me and turned the key on and let me to go to live the life I had received. At the time God was making me, his hand must have needed rest. She wrote about herself in Uhaagaanam 56, partly in jest, I suppose. Her full given name was Janaki Rama Krishnaveni Hemalata. In his book, Sahitilata, the author Anjaneya Sarma noted the year of birth as 1932 while Kondamudi Sriramachandra Murthy wrote in his article, chalaaniki Arunaaachalaaniki Madhya Lata, as 1935, which appeared in other sources as well. Hemalata was born on November 15, in Vijayawada, to Nibhanupudi Visalakshi and Narayana Rao. (Personal correspondence, dated August 28, 1982). “I can proudly say I am the first sensational Woman Writer of the present age of Telugu literature,” she said in a letter addressed to me. In Andhra Pradesh, in nineteen fifties, Tenneti Hemalata, better known, as Lata, entered the arena of Telugu fiction with her novel, gaali padagalu, neeti budagalu. Tenneti Hemalata (1935-1997): An Invincible Force in the History of Telugu Fiction.
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