‘VIRASAM for rebellion against supression’

Warangal: Revolutionary Writers Association (Virasam) leader Varavara Rao said that Warangal and the concept of rebellion against suppression were interlinked and that was why the two-day 24th state conference of the Association was held in a successful manner. The people in the district have witnessed police atrocities and yet they never were bogged down. “No amount of police brutalities and encounters could erase the idea of revolution from the minds of people here,” Varavara Rao told press persons here on Sunday.

He said the idea of establishing Revolutionary Writers Association was also taken birth in Warangal district way back in 1966 when a magazine ‘Srujana’ printed and published by the People’s Poet late Kaloji Narayana Rao.

Since then a lot of contribution was made to the establishment of Virasam in 1970 from the students, authors, Kakatiya University professors, and common people, he explained.

Naxalbari movement was politically motivated and aimed to give power to the people. Krantikar Janathana Sarkar being run by Maoist party in Dandakaranya was an outcome of such ideology and it has no limits, he said.

Referring to setting up separate body of Virasam for Seemandhra region, he said the office-bearers of the Association would take a decision in future in that connection adding ‘As of now there is no such proposal’. The editor of a magazine ‘Veekshanam’ too said the success of Virasam conference was the victory of Warangal people. Fifteen book releases and their introductions, discussions on their different topics took place during the second day proceedings of the conference. Another leader of Virasam Kalyana Rao informed that the association has resolved to popularize the Janathana Sarkar by means of songs, poems, essays and other forms.