Subbarao Panigrahi (1933 ― 23 December 1969) was a Telugu revolutionary poet and leader of Srikakulam peasant uprising.
[1][2] Panigrahi was born in 1933 in a poor Odia Brahmin family at Sompeta of Srikakulam district in Andhra Pradesh.
[3] Panigrahi wrote a number of songs, poems and dramas like Kalachakra, Vimukti, Kumkumrekha, Rikshawalla and Mrigajaal.
[5] He organised the peasant movement in Srikakulam and Northern Andhra with two prominent Naxal leaders Vempatapu Satyanarayana and Adibhatla Kailasam.
[6][7] Panigrahi played a vital role in cultural wing of the party to form People's war in rural Andhra Pradesh.