Shortly before he was admitted to hospital for surgery on July 20, Telugu revolutionary folk artist and balladeer Gaddar had told a press conference with a confident assurance that he would be back ...

‘Gaddar is a life force’, is how Vasanth Kannabiran describes the balladeer in the book ‘My Life is a Song: Gaddar’s Anthems for the Revolution’, her translation from Telugu to English that is ...

Late on Sunday evening, my phone started blowing up with texts from friends in Indian activism circles. “Dost,” the first one read, “Gaddar has died.” With the news came a dull, throbbing ache that ...

Covering his bare torso with a gongadi (woollen blanket), carrying a stick, tossing his long hair in the wind and singing the song of revolution; Gaddar is a household name in the Telugu-speaking ...

Over the last four decades, there have been many compilations and interpretations of “songs of resistance” from varied perspectives. Each progressive group has also presented and published its ...

HYDERABAD: Revolutionary balladeer and folk singer Gaddar who played a key role in the Telangana movement with his songs, spanning several decades passed away here while undergoing treatment at a ...

Renowned Telangana folk singer and balladeer Gaddar, who was popularly known for his revolutionary songs during the 1980s and later during the Telangana statehood agitation, passed away in Hyderabad ...

Gaddar’s life experiences and struggles were woven into songs. Ask him about his life and he would narrate those experiences in songs. Ask him about his family, he would break into songs. His village ...

Although he was not trained in alternative politics, folklore or music in his education given his background, Gaddar effectively communicated the message that he wanted to communicate to the people ...

His body was taken to L B Stadium in the city to enable people to pay their last respects. Renowned Telangana folk singer and balladeer Gaddar, who was popularly known for his revolutionary songs ...

Balladeer Gaddar carried a bullet in his body for 26 years — from April 1997, when suspected plainclothes cops sprayed five bullets on him, to August 2023, when he breathed his last at the age of 74.

When a society is under authoritarian rule, and traditional media fails to play its role to awaken people to injustices being meted to them, it forces communities to look at alternative sources of ...