Jagadeesh Mallipuram

About Jagadeesh Mallipuram

Jagadeesh Mallipuram is an indigenous writer from a Savara tribe, who writes in Telugu. His short stories appeared in various Telugu magazines over the past fifteen years, and have been published as two collections, Silakola, 2011 and Guri ,2018. He also published a collection of poetry in Telugu,Durla. His stories depict the lives of the indigenous peoples from the eastern part of Andhra Pradesh state in India, and how changing times and the arrival of non-indigenous groups impacted them. He currently works as an English teacher in a government funded Tribal Welfare Ashram School in Andhra Pradesh State.