It promoted socially-committed literature and sought to make poetry a weapon against social and economic injustice.
[1] Prominent Kannada writers who identified themselves with the movement are Siddalingaiah, Chandrashekhar Patil, Chennanna Valikar, Kalegowda Nagavar, Poornachandra Tejaswi, H.S.
Veerabhadrappa, Baraguru Ramachandrappa, Prahlad Betageri, Allama Prabhu Bettadur, Geetha Nagabhushan, K. S. Bhagwan, Shantarasa, Mallika Ghanti, Shashikala Veeriah Swamy, Banjagere Jayaprakash, Gangadhar Mudaliar, Gudihalli Nagaraj, Ramzan Darga, (late) Sugayya.S.
Hiremath, Sukanya Maruti, K. Sharifa, Banu Mushtaq, Dr Anupama, Nemichandra, Ki.Ram.
Nagaraj, Dr.Rajashekhar Hatagundi, L. Hanumanthaiah, Bolbandeppa, (late) Linganna Satyampet, Satyanand Patrot, Basavaraj Sabarad, Sarjoo Katkar, Anand Zunjarwad, Jambanna Amarachinta, Gavisiddha Bellary, Suryakanth Gunakimath, Kamaraj, L.N.