Varavara Rao (born November 3, 1940) is a communist, activist, naxalite sympathizer, renowned poet, journalist, literary critic, and public speaker from Andhra Pradesh, India. He has been writing poetry for the last four decades. He is considered as one of the best Marxist critics in Telugu literature and taught Telugu literature to graduate and undergraduate students for about 40 years. He is known as an orator and had addressed hundreds of public gatherings. He founded Srjana (creation), a forum for modern literature in Telugu, in 1966 as quarterly and later turned it into a monthly and successfully brought it out till 1992. He was associated with many a progressive and revolutionary journal in Telugu.
Read more about Varavara Rao: Early Life, Srujana, Thirugabatu Kavulu (Rebel Poets), Virasam (Revolutionary Writer’s Association), Poetry and Literature, After Release From Jail, CPI (Maoist) Emissary, Reimprisonment