Ramashankar Yadav, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ramashankar Yadav

Revolutionary Poet

Date of Birth: 03-Dec-1957

Place of Birth: Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, India

Date of Death: 08-Dec-2015

Profession: poet, spoken word artist

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Ramashankar Yadav (3 December 1957 – 8 December 2015), also known as Vidrohi, was an Indian poet and social activist who went to Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) as a student but continued to live on or around its campus well beyond his student life. Always present during student protests, him reciting his revolutionary poetry at such occasions, and otherwise at Ganga Dhaba, was a common sight.
He died participating in a student protest in Delhi.
He was a progressive poet with reformative spirit.
He had try to sensitise the society at large against religiois superstition, gender discrimination and economical inequality in society through his poems.
He was vocal against state repression, persecution of merginalised section of society and crackdown on voice of dissenting opinion.
A documentary Main tumhara Kavi Hoon has been published on his life and work on 20 september 2015, almost three months before his death.