![]() Bharathudu, who taught at a college in Guntur and was a book lover and an associate of Kolla Venkaiah. When we finally tied up with CK, the group expanded to include the veterinarian and activist Veeraiah Chowdhury, son of another communist leader, Kolla Venkaiah, and C. Such knowledge was not being produced in Telugu and we planned to step in. We keenly felt the lacuna of any eclectic reading and debate in the ML groups and discerned the need for publishing books and essays that would contribute to raising the level of debate among activists. He began publishing leftist literature after 1977, foremost among his books being Telugu translations of Mary Tyler’s My Years in an Indian Prison, William Hinton’s Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village, Edgar Snow’s Red Star Over China and Ted Allan and Richard Gordon’s The Scalpel, the Sword: The Story of Doctor Norman Bethune. Land, Guns, Caste, Woman: The Memoir of a Lapsed Revolutionary Gita Ramaswamy Navayana, April 2022ĬK was jailed during the Emergency and he decided not to join the party again. He was called CK affectionately by nearly everyone. At about this time, we met his uncle and former CPI–ML Charu Majumdar group activist and twice MLA from Chittoor district, C.K. Cyril had decided that he wanted to study law and equip himself with tools to support the movement in legal matters. The conundrum on everyone’s minds was what to do next. ![]() I travelled to Pune and Bombay to meet groups there, activists who had quit various ML formations and wanted to continue to work with people. There were many people who were in a similar position as us with similar questions. Before moving, we had explored several options. We met with other activists who had left their ML factions. With Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand winning the Man International Booker for translation, Gita helps us look beyond translations into English that at least occasionally make headlines.Īfter the Emergency, my husband Cyril and I quit the Marxist–Leninist movement and returned to Hyderabad in 1980 after spending three years underground. She speaks of how in the 1980s the works of Mahasweta Devi to Alex Haley and Romila Thapar made their way into Telugu. In Land, Guns, Caste, Woman, Gita Ramaswamy’s recently published memoir about life as a lapsed revolutionary, a chapter is devoted to her work as the publisher of Hyderabad Book Trust.
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