Nationality Indian Education Bangalore University Role Poet | Name Siddalingaiah (poet) Alma mater Bangalore University Books Ooru Keri (Kannada) | |
Occupation Poet, dramatist, legislator and Dalit activist Notable works Holemadigara Haadu, 1975 | ||
Literary movement Dalit-Bandaya movement | ||
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Siddalingaiah (born 1954, Magadi, Bangalore) is an Indian poet and playwright writing in the Kannada language, and a Dalit activist and politician. He is credited with starting the Dalit-Bandaya movement in Kannada and with starting the genre of Dalit writing. He is one of the founders of the Dalita Sangharsh Samiti along with B. Krishnappa.
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In 1988, at the age of 34, he became a member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly and, in 2006, chairman of the Kannada Development Authority, a post with Cabinet rank that he held until 2008.
He has been head of the Department of Kannada at Bangalore University and a member of the University Syndicate of Kannada University, Hampi. He is acknowledged as a symbol of the Dalit movement and a leading public intellectual and Kannada poet.