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{{short description|Indian poet}}
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'''Cherabanda Raju''' (1944 - 2 July 1982<ref name="Mandēśvararāvu1998">{{cite book|author=Vaḍali Mandēśvararāvu|title=Modern Poetry in Telugu|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=43NkAAAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=V. Mandeswara Rao|page=43}}</ref>) was a revolutionary poet, novelist, and songwriter, who wrote in the [[Telugu language]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Hyderabad-Tab/2016-12-23/Showcasing-great-Telugu-literature/269988|title=Showcasing great Telugu literature|date=23 December 2016|work=The Hans India|access-date=1 September 2018}}</ref> He was one of the six poets who were known for their Digambara (naked) Poetry<ref>{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Indian Literature|last=Datta|first=Amaresh|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|year=2005|isbn=978-81-260-1194-0|location=New Delhi|pages=1043–1044}}</ref> that flourished during the mid-1960s in [[Andhra Pradesh]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/andhra-pradesh/2008/dec/15/revolutionary-poet-jwalamukhi-10703.html|title=Revolutionary poet Jwalamukhi|website=The New Indian Express|access-date=2019-12-13}}</ref>

==Early life==
Raju, whose real name was Baddam Bhaskara Reddy, was born into a farming family in Ankusapuram village of [[Nalgonda district]] in 1944. Chera, as he was endearingly called by his friends, was influenced by the literary works of [[Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay]] and [[Rabindranath Tagore]] during his formative years. Even the legendary poet [[Sri Sri (writer)|Sri Sri]] derived a lot of inspiration from him and dedicated his most popular anthology of poems ''[[Maha Prasthanam]]'' to Chera.

==Political life==
Cherabanda Raju was a teacher by profession and held a degree in Oriental Literature. His literary works include Ganjineellu, Nippurallu, Gamyam, Kattipaata, Diksoochi, Muttadi and Kaanti Yuddham. He, through his poetry, advocated the betterment of the oppressed classes such as [[Dalit]]s and peasants and fought for their rights. After the Digambara School of poetry had lost steam and became a spent force, he cofounded Virasam (Viplava Rachayitala Sangham) along with other revolutionary poets such as [[Varavara Rao]], Sri Sri, Kutumba Rao and Ramana Reddy, and continued his poetic journey.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Balagopal|first=K|date=1982|title=OBITUARY- Cherabanda Raju|url=https://www.epw.in/journal/1982/30/our-correspondent-columns/obituary-cherabanda-raju.html|journal=Economic & Political Weekly|volume=17|pages=1188–89}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8K07DwAAQBAJ&q=Cherabanda+Raju&pg=PT43|title=India after Naxalbari: Unfinished History|last=D'Mello|first=Bernard|date=2018-07-23|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-1-58367-708-7|language=en}}</ref>

During his lifetime he was harassed by law enforcement agencies, implicated in many cases and jailed. While serving prison sentence his health deteriorated and he died of [[brain tumor]] at the age of 38.

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