The poet as the revolutionary – Talking with Varavara Rao (Part 1& 2)

The poet as the revolutionary – Talking with Varavara Rao (Part 1& 2)

Varavara Rao

First published: 2016

■ A POET AGAINST THE STATE: TALKING WITH VARAVARA RAO (Part 1)

RAIOT / By Ramu Ramanathan

In the first of the two part interview with Varavara Rao, founder member of Virasam (Revolutionary Writers’ Association), by playwright Ramu Ramanathan, the Maoist ideologue and Telegu poet reaffirms the role of an intellectual and reflects on the history of repression of the Indian state, and on the issues surrounding the statehood of Telangana
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■ The poet as the revolutionary – Talking with Varavara Rao (Part 2)

RAIOT / By Ramu Ramanathan

In the second part of the ongoing series of interviews with Varavara Rao, founder member of Virasam, by playwright Ramu Ramanathan, the Maoist ideologue and Telegu poet narrates his revolutionary journey, about people’s movements in Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, about writing and publishing revolutionary literature and how the movement has produced some great writers.
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