Jwalamukhi was the pen name of Veeravalli Raghavacharyulu (18 April 1938 – 14 December 2008), who was an Indian poet, novelist, writer and

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Life

Jwalamukhi won the

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(Hindi) for his novel ''Rangeya Raghava Life History''. Among the other more prominent of his novels and thousands of poems were ''Veladina Mandaram'', ''Hyderabad Kathalu'' and ''Votami-Tirugubatu''."Jwalamukhi dies"
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'', 15 December 2008, retrieved 22 December 2008 Jwalamukhi was a member of the "Digambara Kavulu", a group of poets whose views and style is recognised as a decisive break in the history of modern

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. He was also a co-founder of the Revolutionary Writers Association (Virasam) in 1970, an active member of the Organisation for People's Democratic Rights and a founder of the India-China Friendship Association. He was the Andhra Pradesh secretary and national vice president of the India-China Friendship Association until his death."Revolutionary poet Jwalamukhi passes away"
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'', 15 December 2008, retrieved 22 December 2008 He was born in the Sitarambagh section of

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. He founded Sitarambagh Residents Welfare Association and opposed Laxmi Nivas Ganeriwal. After the foundation of Virasam in 1970, Jwalamukhi was arrested in 1971 for his writings along with two other Virasam members under the AP Preventive Detention Act.Kannabiran, K. G.
The Wages of Impunity: Power, Justice and Human Rights
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', article at PUCL website One of his poems was proscribed under Section 99 of the Code of Criminal Proceedings, and all copies of the book in which it appeared were seized. "An electrifying speaker, Jwalamukhi travelled extensively and lectured across the state

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and beyond for decades", according to an article in ''

''. "He was associated with nearly every major social movement in Andhra Pradesh for well over three decades." He died at a corporate hospital at

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on 14 December 2008, from a heart attack while receiving treatment for liver cirrhosis, from which he suffered for the previous year. He was survived by his wife, Sita Devi, and sons Sampath Kumar, Sridhar and Vasu.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jwalamukhi 1938 births 2008 deaths Hindi-language poets Activists from Andhra Pradesh Indian Marxists Indian Marxist writers Writers from Hyderabad, India Telugu writers Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi Indian Marxist poets Indian Communist poets 20th-century Indian poets Indian male poets Poets from Andhra Pradesh