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A political economist, statistician, dialectician, teacher, writer, public speaker, master storyteller, a person with a high sense of humour, a very sharp brain and a consistent friend, guide, sympathiser, and critic of people's movements, all combined into one - that was R S Rao. The intellectual world that supports people's movements, in general, and the Naxalbari line, in particular, has lost a highly perceptive and influential spirit.
R S Rao: An Intellectual well known for goading a deep churning, giving rise to alternative ideas, theories, in the Marxist-Maoist Tradition and practice. Thus the two-year stint in Calcutta not only brought Rao fame as a ne econometrician, but also transformed him into a committed Naxalite sympathiser. N Venugopal He used to tell us of how the police
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