Monday Aug 7, 2023 Gaddar singing at Samaravedi Photo: Hari (Prajashakti)
Gaddar is a revolutionary poet. There are many poets. Those who are blessed with extraordinary vocabulary, skillful imagery and rare charms. But those who become the language of the boiling extreme experiences of the country, people and history in which they live become revolutionary poets. After completing his engineering studies in Nizamabad and Hyderabad, Gaddar decided not to settle for a life of security despite landing a job with Canara Bank in 1975. He became a CPI (ML) activist from 1980 and found his place in the cultural front of the radical revolutionary movement. Gaddar was the founder of Jananatyamandali in Telangana. He never considered poetry as an intellectual exercise. He constantly raised caste discrimination through his poetry as well as the acute issue of class exploitation. Walking half-blind with a cloth in his hand, he recited his poetry and set thousands on fire all over the country. Gaddar traveled all over the world by accepting the rule imposed on Dalits to walk around with a turban tied around their neck to indicate the way they are coming. Accompanied by vibrant Dravidian rhythms, his poems and songs were highly conversational enough to fire up the crowd of tens of thousands. For Gaddar, poetry was a form of exchange full of questions, satire and allusion, as seen in the poems of Bertolt Brecht, Katdamnitta, Vara Vara Rao and others. All the reactionary forces, upper castes and state powers trembled at the fiery voice of this iron-throated warrior. Giving voice to Gaddar’s character and singing his poems was an unforgettable experience of my life when Aakashvani presented the Malayalam translation of the Telugu drama Dingari’s story of his life at the National Drama Festival in 1986. The fire of song sown by Gaddar will never be extinguished. It will continue to spread. (The writer is the secretary of Sangeetha Nataka Academy) Read on deshabhimani.com
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