Nalla Thomas

Nalla Thomas (2 March 1946 – 19 April 2021) was an Asian Christian and a spiritual personality, who served the Church in Assam and undivided Andhra Pradesh for nearly four decades comprising the seventies through the New millennium. He used to compose hymns for enhancing spiritual direction. Thomas was an Ecclesiastical administrator of Samavesam of Telugu Baptist Churches Society.

In 2016 on Telangana State Formation Day, Government of Telangana included the name of Thomas among list of 62 awardees of personalities who contributed much in different fields. Under category of Spiritual Personalities, not only was the name of Thomas included, and there were also two other spiritual personalities comprising Vedic scholar Sri Kodakandla Narasimha Rama Sidhanthi and Islamic scholar Sri Janab Mufti Ajeemuddin Saheb of Jamia Nizamia. The three of them were honored along with 59 others on the occasion by then governor of Telangana, E. S. L. Narasimhan and Chief Minister of Telangana, K. Chandrashekar Rao. Provided by Wikipedia