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N Venugopal Rao has been a poet, literary critic, journalist, public speaker and translator for the last four decades with about 25 books in original Telugu and as many in translation from English to Telugu to his credit. After being in mainstream journalism for more than 20 years, he has been running his own alternative, small magazine, Veekshanam, a monthly journal of political economy and society, for the last 16 years.

Opinion

The highly charged, momentous hours before Varavara Rao’s arrest

N Venugopal Rao Nov 18, 2018

N Venugopal Rao, poet, literary critic, journalist, public speaker and translator, runs his own alternative magazine, Veekshanam, a monthly journal of political economy and society. He is…

Opinion

After 25 failed cases, another case against ‘Literary Naxal’ Varavara Rao

N Venugopal Rao Sep 21, 2018

At least 48 years before being branded as ‘Urban Naxal’, he was termed ‘Literary Naxal’ or 'Naxalite in literature’. Twenty five cases were foisted against him in the subsequent 45 years but…

Opinion

Varavarao Rao arrest: fake letter and real harassment

N Venugopal Rao Aug 29, 2018

In a series of several illegal acts based on a concocted letter, Pune police with the help of Telangana police arrested revolutionary poet and public intellectual Varavara Rao in Hyderabad…