Poetic Obituaries: Which is why, [Narayan] Surve's poetry continues

to speak to me with its quintessential message of struggle: "Bhaago nahin, badalo"--Don't run away, change. The Mumbai that he lived in, and in which I spent my own rebellious youth, has no doubt changed dramatically in recent years. Flashy malls advertising limitless hedonism have displaced textile mills, where once Surve's poems (and the songs of revolutionary balladeers like Shahir Annabhau Sathe and Amar Shaikh) inspired numerous agitations for workers' rights and an egalitarian India. But has this change made progressive poetry outdated?

from Indian Express: Homage to a Comrade Poet

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