Talla Gnananandam

From 1945-1951, Gnananandam studied Bachelor of Divinity at Serampore College, Serampore during the Principalships of G. H. C. Angus and C. E. Abraham.

Gnananandam became Principal of the seminary in 1968 succeeding Paul Antrobus at a crucial time when efforts were made to close-down the institution as it remained a residual seminary due to the ecumenical initiatives it undertook to form the Andhra Christian Theological College in 1964.

The Indian Church History Review of the Church History Association of India records that the seminary was completely shut down in July 1969 and the students on its rolls were transferred to the Ramayapatnam Baptist Theological Seminary in Ramayapatnam. It was only after a few months that T. Gnananandam finally relocated to Ramayapatnam to join the faculty there.

Ravela Joseph and B. Suneel Bhanu who had been commissioned by the Board of Theological Education of the Senate of Serampore College to compile the original Christian writings in Telugu have attributed the following titles to the authorship of Gnananandam which feature in the compilation, Bibliography of Original Christian Writings in India in Telugu which include,

• 1972, Our Beginnings,
• 1962, John E. Davis: The amazing story of the Missionary who became a Leper for Christ,
• No date, Charles T. Stud: A Faith Warrior,
• 1965, Religion of Primitive People with Special Reference to South Indian Dravidian Religion,