Subbarao Panigrahi

Subbarao Panigrahi (1933 ― 23 December 1969) was a Telugu revolutionary poet and leader of Srikakulam peasant uprising.[1][2]

Career

Panigrahi 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]

It is reported that Telugu action drama film Acharya is set on the uprising led by Panigrahi.[12][13][14]

References
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  2. Prakash, Brahma (2019-06-28). Cultural Labour: Conceptualizing the 'Folk Performance' in India. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-909584-1.
  3. Shaw, Padmaja (2018-09-04). Counter-Hegemony Narratives: Revolutionary Songs. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-36441-7.
  4. "Frontier articles on Society & Politics". www.frontierweekly.com. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
  5. Chakrabarty, Bidyut; Kujur, Rajat Kumar (2009-12-04). Maoism in India: Reincarnation of Ultra-Left Wing Extremism in the Twenty-First Century. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-23648-9.
  6. Bhattacharjee, Sumit (2020-07-31). "Is Charu Majumdar's ideology relevant today?". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
  7. Singh, Bhawani; Shekhawat, Vibhuti Singh (2007). Confessional Terror: A Dateline to Death. Anamika Publishers & Distributors. ISBN 978-81-7975-175-6.
  8. Narendra, Madhurantakam (2017-01-29). "The Behrampur connect". www.thehansindia.com. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
  9. Media, Ideology and Hegemony. BRILL. 2018-09-11. ISBN 978-90-04-36441-7.
  10. "Boddapadu's Revolutionary Legacy". archive.cpiml.org. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
  11. "Fifty Years Of A Revolutionary Tree| Countercurrents". 2018-12-22. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
  12. "'Acharya' is based on that book? Surprising". indiaherald.com. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
  13. zedrjy1. "Acharya:ఆ పుస్తకం ఆధారంగా 'ఆచార్య'?ఆశ్చర్యంలో అభిమానులు". Asianet News Network Pvt Ltd (in Telugu). Retrieved 2022-02-28.
  14. "Is this the inspiration behind Chiranjeevi's Acharya?". Cine Josh. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
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