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{{Short description|Telugu poet and politician}}
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'''Subbarao Panigrahi''' (1933 ― 23 December 1969) was a [[Telugu language|Telugu]] revolutionary poet and leader of [[Srikakulam peasant uprising]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=In Srikakulam, A Mother Relives Choices She Made 50 Years Ago – To Pick up a Gun, To Give up a Baby |url=https://thewire.in/politics/arunas-mother-and-then-they-all |access-date=2022-02-28 |website=The Wire}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Prakash |first=Brahma |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w7SmDwAAQBAJ&dq=Subbarao+panigrahi&pg=PT344 |title=Cultural Labour: Conceptualizing the 'Folk Performance' in India |date=2019-06-28 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-909584-1 |language=en}}</ref>

==Career==
Panigrahi was born in 1933 in a poor [[Odia people|Odia]] [[Brahmin]] family at [[Sompeta]] of [[Srikakulam district]] in [[Andhra Pradesh]]. Initially, he worked as a priest in a local temple.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Shaw |first=Padmaja |url=https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004364417/BP000009.xml |title=Counter-Hegemony Narratives: Revolutionary Songs |date=2018-09-04 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-36441-7 |language=en}}</ref> Panigrahi wrote a number of songs, poems and dramas like ''Kalachakra'', ''Vimukti'', ''Kumkumrekha'', ''Rikshawalla'' and ''Mrigajaal''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Subbarao died a Martyr's Death |url=https://www.frontierweekly.com/articles/vol-51/51-22/51-22-Subbarao%20died%20a%20Martyrs%20Death.html |access-date=2024-08-03 |work=Frontier|first=Asok|last=Chattopadhyay|volume=51|issue=22|date=2-8 December 2018}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Chakrabarty |first1=Bidyut |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4ceOAgAAQBAJ&dq=Subbarao+panigrahi&pg=PA93 |title=Maoism in India: Reincarnation of Ultra-Left Wing Extremism in the Twenty-First Century |last2=Kujur |first2=Rajat Kumar |date=2009-12-04 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-23648-9 |language=en}}</ref> He organised the peasant movement in [[Srikakulam]] and Northern Andhra with two prominent Naxal leaders [[Vempatapu Satyanarayana]] and [[Adibhatla Kailasam]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bhattacharjee |first=Sumit |date=2020-07-31 |title=Is Charu Majumdar's ideology relevant today? |language=en-IN |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/is-charu-majumdars-ideology-relevant-today/article32236475.ece |access-date=2022-02-28 |issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Singh |first1=Bhawani |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oQ6FHeJJszcC&dq=Subbarao+panigrahi&pg=PA223 |title=Confessional Terror: A Dateline to Death |last2=Shekhawat |first2=Vibhuti Singh |date=2007 |publisher=Anamika Publishers & Distributors |isbn=978-81-7975-175-6 |language=en}}</ref> Panigrahi played a vital role in cultural wing of the party to form [[People's war]] in rural Andhra Pradesh.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Narendra |first=Madhurantakam |date=2017-01-29 |title=The Behrampur connect |url=https://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Hans/2017-01-29/The-Behrampur-connect/276608 |access-date=2022-02-28 |website=www.thehansindia.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eJJyDwAAQBAJ&dq=Subbarao+panigrahi&pg=PA152 |title=Media, Ideology and Hegemony |date=2018-09-11 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-36441-7 |language=en}}</ref> On 23 December 1969, he was killed in a police encounter near Andhra-[[Odisha]] border.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Boddapadu's Revolutionary Legacy |url=https://archive.cpiml.org/liberation/year_2009/feb_09/special_report_1.html |access-date=2022-02-28 |website=archive.cpiml.org}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |last2= |first2= |last3= |first3= |date=2018-12-22 |title=Fifty Years Of A Revolutionary Tree{{!}} Countercurrents |url=https://countercurrents.org/2018/12/fifty-years-of-a-revolutionary-tree/ |access-date=2022-02-28 |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Popular culture==
It is reported that [[Telugu language|Telugu]] action drama film [[Acharya (2022 film)|''Acharya'']] is set on the uprising led by Panigrahi.<ref>{{Cite web |title='Acharya' is based on that book? Surprising |url=http://www.indiaherald.com/Movies/Read/994465046/Acharya-is-based-on-that-book-Surprising |access-date=2022-02-28 |website=indiaherald.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=zedrjy1 |title=Acharya:ఆ పుస్తకం ఆధారంగా 'ఆచార్య'?ఆశ్చర్యంలో అభిమానులు |url=https://telugu.asianetnews.com/gossips/acharya-story-based-on-subbarao-panigrahi-book-r5gynv |access-date=2022-02-28 |website=Asianet News Network Pvt Ltd |language=te}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Is this the inspiration behind Chiranjeevi's Acharya? |url=https://www.cinejosh.com/news/3/86807/is-this-the-inspiration-behind-chiranjeevi-acharya.html |access-date=2022-02-28 |website=Cine Josh |date=9 January 2022 |language=english}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Telugu poets]]
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[[Category:People shot dead by law enforcement officers in India]]

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