Topic: Vara Vara Rao
Rao’s poems made ones in power uncomfortable: 50 young poets in solidarity with jailed poet
More than fifty young poets across the country have expressed their solidarity with people's poet Varavara Rao and condemned his arbitrary arrest under draconian charges like UAPA, urging the authorities to release him immediately.
NHRC Covid-19 experts committee demands to release Rao on Parole
The members of the recently constituted Committee of Experts to assess the Impact of C0VID-I9 pandemic on human rights by National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) have raised their concerns to H. L. Dattu, Chairman of NHRC about the health status of Varavara Rao, a renowned poet, writer who has been kept in Taloja jail for the last 22 months.
Don’t kill Varavara Rao in jail, wife and daughters of 79 year old poet urge
Wife and daughters of Telugu poet and activist Pendyala Varavara Rao, who is currently in Navi Mumbai’s Taloja jail in the Bhima Koregaon case, told media his life is in danger and appealed the Centre and the Maharashtra government to provide him with immediate medical care.
14 MPs write to Uddhav Thackeray raising concern at deteriorating health of Varavara Rao
In a letter to Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, more than ten parliamentarians have registered their grave concern at the deteriorating health of the 81-year-old people's poet Varavara Rao, now lodged in Taloja Jail under the Bhima Koregaon case.
Wife of Vara Vara Rao moves court, demands to know his health status
Wife of renowned poet and activist P Vara Vara Rao on Saturday demanded that the Maharashtra government should reveal the actual status of his health, in the wake of reports that he had been admitted to a hospital in Mumbai following a deterioration of his condition.
