In Conversation with Shyamala Gogu, Dalit Feminist Writer, Poet and Activist from Telangana Eligedi Rajkumar Shyamala Gogu is a Dalit feminist writer, poet, and activist in Telangana, India. She edited the following Telugu literary works: Nallapoddu: Dalitha Sthreela Sahityam 1921-2002 (Black Dawn: Dalit Women’s Writings, 1921-2002, an Anthology of Dalit Women’s Writings in Telugu language from Andhra Pradesh during 1921-2002. This was published in 2003. The text highlights discrimination against Dalits from a Dalit womens’ point of view. It was followed by Nallaregatisallu: Madiga Madiga Upakulala Aadolla Kathalu (Furrows in Black Soil: The Stories of Madiga and Madiga Subcaste Women) in 2006. It is also about the discrimination against Dalits from a Dalit womens’ point of view. ‘Thataki’ (Thataka) and ‘Madiga Badeyya’ are two Telugu short stories written by Shyamala published as Wada Pillala Kathalu (Dalit Childrens Stories) by Anveshi Research Centre for Women’s Studies, Hyderabad in 2008. The same is also published in English with the book titled as Tataki Wins Again and Braveheart Bedeyya by Mango DC Books, Kottayam, Kerala in 2008. And in the year 2007, when Anveshi Research Centre for Women’s Studies, Hyderabad, determined to document the lives of the most empowered women, it decided on doing the biography project of T.N. Sadalakshmi, who was not only by that time but even to this day the most accomplished and most politically empowered of women from Telangana Dalit (Madiga Caste), and the project was entrusted to Shyamala Gogu. In 2011, Shyamala published the biography of one of Telangana’s leading women Dalit politicians, T.N. Sadalakshmi titled ‘Nene Balanni’ – T.N. Sadalakshmi Bathuku Katha (‘I Am an Empowered Woman’: The Life Story of T.N. Sadalakshmi). This biographical work of Shyamala is based on extensive research and a series of interviews she had conducted not only with T.N. Sadalakshmi but also with her family members, numerous community leaders, contemporaries in power, politics, opposition, Dalit and Madiga Dandora Movement for ABCD categorisation for Sub-castes’ Reservation, and Separate State movement for Telagangana. This became