• Dr. N. SATYANARAYANA

Prison literature is a sub-genre of literature which can be produced by political prisoners within the walls of Prison. The prisoners always fight against the autocratic governments and find a solution for the contemporary social, political issues. They also share their ideological views through effective communication. The present paper focuses on Prison poetry of Varavara Rao. He writing has been taken up as a subject to explore the nuances of his literary outlook and self-introspection in the backdrop of closed walls of a prison. Unlike other writings, prison writing is remarkable in respect of reality as it is poured out when the writer was in captivity and thus made him express his anguish and rebellion. His work has a peculiar character of writing with the intensity of humanity. The paper mainly evaluates select poems out of fifteen that are titled under Swechha (Liberty) which carry the undertones of the Emergency (1975-77) and times of his imprisonment are studied here. Swechha Sahithi (Hyderabad) a leading publisher of Telugu literature in the book Varavara Rao Kavithvam 1957-2007, gives a systematic poetry in 2008 by going deep into his poetry he notices self-introspection of social, political and picks up the liberation and human rights aspects in general.

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" VARAVARA RAO’S PRISON POSEY: THE WINDS AND LIBERTY ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 6, page no.k254-k257, June-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2206A33.pdf

" VARAVARA RAO’S PRISON POSEY: THE WINDS AND LIBERTY ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 6, page no. ppk254-k257, June-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2206A33.pdf