Biography

He was born in a Telugu family in Madras and did most of his schooling from Andhra Pradesh.He shifted to Delhi after the Telangana agitation of 1969, from where he completed his higher studies.He was influenced by the Communist movement in his school days.He achieved the All-India first rank in the CBSE Examination.In 1974, he joined the Student Federation of India. Student Federation of India Logo.He was a sportsperson in his college and loved to play lawn tennis. He also represented his university in lawn tennis.In 1975, he was put behind bars for opposing Internal Emergency. He was then elected for the President of the JNUs Student Union.In 1978, he was selected as the All-India Joint Secretary of SFI and later went to become the All India President of SFI. He left SFI in 1986.In 1984, he was elected to the Central Committee of the CPI(M). Sitaram Yechury in a CPI (M) conference.His first wife was the daughter of Vina Mazumdar, an academic and left-wing activist. He had two sons and a daughter with her. He then later married to Seema Chisti, the Resident Editor of Indian Express.