Ramashankar Yadav

Ramashankar Yadav (3 December 1957 – 8 December 2015), popularly known as Vidrohi among his friends and admirers, was an Indian poet and social activist who came to Jawaharlal Nehru University as a student but continued to live on or around its campus well beyond his student life, in the process becoming a part of the campus landscape for many generations of students.

Always present during student protests, him reciting his revolutionary poetry at such occasions, and otherwise at Ganga Dhaba, was a common sight. He died doing what he perhaps liked doing most, participating in a student protest.

Biography

Vidrohi was born in Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, to Ramnarayan Yadav and Karma Devi. He was studying for his LLB in a college in U.P. where he was rusticated due to his involvement in student politics. He came to New Delhi and got enrolled as a Phd candidate in the Hindi department of the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University, where once again, he was rusticated for similar reasons.