My Life Is a Song

<p>Description</p><p>Gaddar poet singer revolutionary is among the most well-known of the</p><p>creative minds associated with people's resistance movements in India. Born</p><p>Gummadi Vittal Rao in 1947 in Tupran village of Medak district in what is</p><p>now Telangana Gaddar became an activist in his youth after dropping out of</p><p>engineering college due to poverty. With a gift for singing and song-writing</p><p>he travelled the road-for some time underground-reaching lakhs of people</p><p>with his music and became the cultural face of 'rebellion' the literal meaning</p><p>of his nom de guerre.</p><p>Of the thousands of songs Gaddar performed only a few were ever recorded</p><p>in print. My Life Is a Song brings together for the first time in English</p><p>translation twenty-three representative songs selected by his friend and</p><p>fellow traveller Vasanth Kannabiran. Translated from the original Telugu</p><p>with an eye to Gaddar's unique style and delivery this selection takes the</p><p>extraordinary 'anthems' of one of India's greatest singer-poets-and a living</p><p>legend of revolutionary thought-to a wider audience.</p><p><br></p>