Sri Sri’s Telugu Poetry: Revolution, Social Justice and the Power of Words
Srirangam Srinivasa Rao, known as Sri Sri, transformed modern Telugu poetry through a forceful engagement with labour, inequality and social change. His celebrated collection Mahaprasthanam helped bring ordinary workers and marginalised people into the centre of poetic attention. Rather than treating poetry as an ornament removed from life, Sri Sri made it a way to confront the conditions in whic…