ANNABHAU SATHE

Sept. 14, 2022

Maharashtra’s Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is in Moscow to unveil the statue of Lok Shahir (balladeer) Annabhau Sathe at the All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature. An oil painting of Sathe, who passed away in 1969, will also be unveiled at the Moscow’s Indian consulate.

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Sathe’s work was immensely inspired by the Russian revolution and the Communist ideology. He was a member of the Communist Party of India (CPI), and featured among the selected authors from India whose work was translated in Russian.
Tukaram Bhaurao Sathe, who later came to be known as Annabhau Sathe, was born in a Dalit family on August 1, 1920 in Maharashtra’s Wategaon village in Satara district.
Sathe belonged to the Matang community among Dalits.
He formed Dalit Yuvak Sangh, a cultural group and started writing poems on workers’ protests, agitations.
In 1939, he wrote his first ballad ‘Spanish Povada’.
In 1943, he along with Amar Sheikh and Datta Gavhankar, formed the Lal Bawta Kala Pathak.

Source : Indian Express