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C.V. .
Eminent Telugu writer and
poet of the toiling masses
Chittajallu Varahala Rao passed
away on 8 th November 2017 due
to prolonged illness. Born in 1930
he completed graduation in Guntur
and went to Madras Christian
College for his post-graduation.
Here he was influenced by the
great Telugu writer Sri Sri and
attracted towards Marxism through
his teacher Prof. Chandram
Devanesan of Sri Lanka.
He adopted Marxism as his
world out-look he continued until
his last breath as a Marxist and
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Com. Bangar raju, leader of
CPI(ML) Liberation said that it is a
great loss as the Naxalbari
generation leaders and paid
tributes to Kotaiah.
Com. M.Narahari Sastri, a
close friend and leaders of
teachers movement, described
how Kotaiah grew in the activities
of student organisation and as
worker of Nizam Road Transport
Corporation in Hyderabad.
Com. SSC Bose, leader
Forward Bloc said that he came
to know Kotaiah when he visited
Kondamodalu as a member of
January - 2018
waged unrelenting struggle in the
fields of culture literature and arts.
He played an important role in a
period in which the progressive
literary movement in Andhra
Pradesh faced stagnation. His
writings inspired the youth.
The “Paris Commune”
written by CV is an epic that
inspiringly retold the history of the
first revolution of world proletariat.
His satirical rendition of capitalist
class, its class nature of exploitation
of labour power, its deception in
the name of democracy, its
duplicity and dubiousness of
freedom of press and the so-
called independence of judicial
system have been clearly and
categorically exposed in this
Telugu epic with an extraordinary
literary skill that inspired many a
youth to take up their historical
task.
His poetical composition
“Vishada Bharatam” (The
Distressed India) which was
published in 1965 has become a hand book for the left oriented
youth and students, inspiring them
to quote the entire stanzas of CV’s
poetry in their speeches and
orations in discussions as well as
public meetings.
He is well-versed with the
writings of the social reformers
Mahatma
Phule,
Periar
Ramaswamy, Ambedkar and
others and their valid viewpoints
regarding abominal caste system.
He wrote four books on caste
system of which Satyakama
Jabali is also an epic poem. CV
is essentially a Marxist poet of the
first order. He opined that in the
specific Indian conditions, the
class and caste struggles has to
be taken up simultaneously for the
success of people’s revolution.
With his writings CV has
become a poet of oppressed in the
Telugu literary world. His death is
a great loss to the working class.
The ‘Class Struggle” pays
respectable revolutionary tributes
to Comrade CV.
Fact finding Committee on police
firing that killed two girijans. He
also said it is necessary to
achieve the unity of communists.
Com. G.Vijayakumar, CCM,
CPI(ML) described in etail various
agitations led by Com. Kotaiah
during his lifetime. As the secretary
of Rytu Cooli Sangham (AP) he
attended wherever the peasants,
adivasis and workers were
agitating for their demands, and
expressed solidarity with them.
He called upon the cadre to
rededicate to build class struggles
and to strive for the unity of
revolutionaries. The leaders of CPI(ML) in
Krishna district Comrades
M.Bhargava sree, T.Purnachandra
rao and Veera babu vividly
described various agitations
organised under the leadership of
Com.Kotaiah in Vijayawada city
and Krishna district.
Leaders of various mass
organisations
also
paid
revolutionary homage to Com
Kotaiah. K.Ravi Babu, (Praja
Sahiti), K.Yesu, president OPDR,
and Dr. C.Vijaya, (Stree Vimukti
Sanghatana), N.Parameswara
Rao, (APTF), remembered their
association with Com.Kotaiah.
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