Sudha was born in Tatikonda village of Warangal district in the then Andhra Pradesh state of India on 1 November 1963 to her parents Mrs Sarala and Mr Yadagiri Akubathini. She did her early education (grade 1 & 2) in Hanmakonda and studied from Class 3 to 7 at Maidpally Upper Primary School in Karimnagar district. Then studied from Class 8 to 10th in Peddapalli Zilla Parishad Girls Secondary School where she graduated with SSC in first division. During her school education, Sudha has participated in lot of extra-curricular activities such as kho-kho, running, tennikoit, long & high jump, and in cultural activities suh as nruthyam, music, drama, tabla and harmoni.
Sudha has studied her Two-year intermediate course at Andhra Mahila Sabha college in Hyderabad and her 3-year degree college at Vanitha Maha Vidyalaya, also in Hyderabad. She has received Certificate “J” of National Cadet Corps (NCC). Sudha was awarded Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) degree in 1983 by Osmania University in Hyderabad.
Sudha was married to Venkat Pattabathula on 1 May 1985 in Hanmakonda and followed Venkat to an unknown place Surat in Gujarat state where she made lot of friends. Sudha gave birth to her first child, Srujana in 1986 and then moved to Saudi Arabia with her daughter to accompany Venkat for his new job. Sudha has again made lot of friends there.
In 1993 Sudha has given birth to her second child Krishna Chaitanya and migrated with two children to Australia in 1994 where she has lived in Sydney for a year. Sudha has then moved to Brisbane as Venkat got employment there. Sudha has then pursued many training courses and found employment with BOC at Rocklea. In between Sudha has spent four years (2000-2004) in Texas with the family when Venkat took a job with another global fertilizer company in USA.
With the help of a few dedicated volunteers, Mrs Amrutha Vedam and Mrs Shakuntala Chamala, Sudha Pattabathula has formed Queensland’s first Telugu School. Initially, this school was run each week in volunteers' homes and gradually shifted to Indooroopilly State Library meeting room. Queensland’s first Telugu Radio - Telugu Lahari - is a community radio group based in Brisbane, Australia. This group was formed by a few families and friends with Telugu background in Brisbane. On 7th September 2005 it broadcast its very first program in Telugu on Radio 4EB. Sudha has gained radio operator certification and also anchored and co-anchored many Telugulahari programs in one of the ancient Indian languages, Telugu.
Throughout her life, Sudha has made lot of friends in different places and helped many people.
Sudha's Community Service
Sudha with her selfless service and community spirit has touched many people’s hearts in Brisbane. Community spirit is always associated with voluntary work and she has always volunteered to spend her valuable time for various community activities. With my close association and interaction with Sudha for the last 10 years, I am able to list out below, a few of her community works which show her selflessness, generosity and her great unique personality.
Since 2005 to 2012 Sudha has donated blood once every year if not more to Australian Red Cross Blood Service.
She was one of the founder members of Telugu School in Brisbane. With the help of couple of other volunteers, she taught Telugu language for many kids in Telugu Community for at least 6 to 7 years.
Her community spirit is such that there was no caste, creed or even nationality boundaries. A few years ago, Queensland Telugu Association received an email from one Australian, informing that she was visiting South India on some project work and expressed interest in learning Telugu and requested if the association can find her someone who can teach Telugu. Sudha came to know about this, quietly contacted that person and taught her Telugu for so many weeks/months.
Sudha was one of the founder members of Telugu Radio (Telugu Lahari) in Brisbane, Australia which started at Radio 4EB in 2005. She was a Panel Operator, Broadcaster and was one of the very active volunteers of Telugu Radio until 2012. The help and support she provided to her Team was invaluable. Sudha also volunteered many times through Telugu Group to help out in many special events organised by Radio 4EB. She did this service without her Group's knowledge as she didn’t like her service to be acknowledged.
From 2004 to 2008, Sudha has helped me in organising cultural gatherings twice a year before the Association was formed and continued to do so in Queensland Telugu Association Cultural functions until March 2012. She was like a back bone to the association and played a major role for the smooth running of all the cultural functions and also all the other activities that QTA organised (Blood Donation Camp, Stall in Qld Multicultural function etc.) during that period.
Sudha made many anonymous donations to various community events, cultural functions and natural disaster relief funds through me.
God rarely creates a person with all the good qualities and in my opinion it is Sudha, a wonderful Soul who is one in a Billion.
Rama Kanchibotla
Charity Work in Sudha's Memory
Sudha's close friend, Rama Kanchibotla, has produced this CD in honor of her memory. All proceeds from each sale is donated to Cancer Research Australia Foundation.
Sudha has sponsored a child with monthly contribution through World Vision Australia and her husband Venkat has continued the sponsorship of the child.
