FIGHTERS FOR RIGHTS
The five prominent persons targeted recently by the Maharashtra police come from various walks of life but have a common thread connecting them: they have been fighting for the rights of the underprivileged and the vulnerable in different parts of the cou
In a literary career spanning well over six decades, Pendyala Varavara Rao has authored very many poems, but “The Poet is no Lion, but a Stream” is read by his followers as a metaphor for his life. Rao’s credentials as one of the foremost litterateurs of the Telugu language is well established, by dint of both his creative lyricism in poetry and his incisive literary criticism founded on Marxian aesthetics and sociology. His poetry collections, published from 1968 to 2014, as well as his seminal thesis on “Telangana Liberation Struggle and Telugu Novel: A Study into Interconnection between Society and Literature”, stand testimony to this. But another defining parameter of Rao’s life is his open advocacy of and proclaimed affiliation to Marxist and Maoist political philosophy, ideology and organisational practice right from the late 1960s, the period of the Naxalbari rebellion in West