Joopaka Subhadra

Joopaka Subhadra is a powerful Dalit woman writer and an activist who has been instrumental in establishing Mattipoolu (SC, ST, BC and Minority) Women Writers’ Forum. Her short story collection, Rayakka Manyam, contains vignettes of different aspects of Dalits. Subhadra has a poetry collection, Ayyayyo Dammakka and contributes political essays, book reviews, songs and journalistic pieces to a well-known feminist journal, Bhoomika. She has co-edited Nalla Regadi Sallu (a collection of Madiga women’s stories) and Kaitunakala Dandem (Madiga poems), both of which have had an impact on the Telugu literary scene. She has also translated the well-known Tamil Dalit woman writer, Bama’s Sangati into Telugu (via the English translation).