Subbarao Panigrahi (1933 ― 23 December 1969) was a Telugu revolutionary poet and leader of Srikakulam peasant uprising.[1][2]
Career
editPanigrahi was born in 1933 in a poor Odia Brahmin family at Sompeta of Srikakulam district in Andhra Pradesh. Initially, he worked as a priest in a local temple.[3] Panigrahi wrote a number of songs, poems and dramas like Kalachakra, Vimukti, Kumkumrekha, Rikshawalla and Mrigajaal.[4] He participated in Naxalbari uprising and joined the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist). In 1969, Subbarao served the secretary of the Sompeta area committee of the party and also took charges to mobilised the people of Uddan and Paralakhemundi area.[5] He organised the peasant movement in Srikakulam and Northern Andhra with two prominent Naxal leaders Vempatapu Satyanarayana and Adibhatla Kailasam.[6][7] Panigrahi played a vital role in cultural wing of the party to form People's war in rural Andhra Pradesh.[8][9] On 23 December 1969, he was killed in a police encounter near Andhra-Odisha border.[10][4][11]
Popular culture
editIt is reported that Telugu action drama film Acharya is set on the uprising led by Panigrahi.[12][13][14]
References
edit- ^ "In Srikakulam, A Mother Relives Choices She Made 50 Years Ago – To Pick up a Gun, To Give up a Baby". The Wire. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
- ^ Prakash, Brahma (28 June 2019). Cultural Labour: Conceptualizing the 'Folk Performance' in India. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-909584-1.
- ^ Shaw, Padmaja (4 September 2018). Counter-Hegemony Narratives: Revolutionary Songs. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-36441-7.
- ^ a b Chattopadhyay, Asok (2–8 December 2018). "Subbarao died a Martyr's Death". Frontier. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
- ^ Chakrabarty, Bidyut; Kujur, Rajat Kumar (4 December 2009). Maoism in India: Reincarnation of Ultra-Left Wing Extremism in the Twenty-First Century. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-23648-9.
- ^ Bhattacharjee, Sumit (31 July 2020). "Is Charu Majumdar's ideology relevant today?". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
- ^ Singh, Bhawani; Shekhawat, Vibhuti Singh (2007). Confessional Terror: A Dateline to Death. Anamika Publishers & Distributors. ISBN 978-81-7975-175-6.
- ^ Narendra, Madhurantakam (29 January 2017). "The Behrampur connect". www.thehansindia.com. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
- ^ Media, Ideology and Hegemony. BRILL. 11 September 2018. ISBN 978-90-04-36441-7.
- ^ "Boddapadu's Revolutionary Legacy". archive.cpiml.org. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
- ^ "Fifty Years Of A Revolutionary Tree| Countercurrents". 22 December 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
- ^ "'Acharya' is based on that book? Surprising". indiaherald.com. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
- ^ zedrjy1. "Acharya:ఆ పుస్తకం ఆధారంగా 'ఆచార్య'?ఆశ్చర్యంలో అభిమానులు". Asianet News Network Pvt Ltd (in Telugu). Retrieved 28 February 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Is this the inspiration behind Chiranjeevi's Acharya?". Cine Josh. 9 January 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2022.