15 Facts About Bharat Patankar

Bharat Patankar is a leading activist of the left wing of Shramik Mukti Dal and of the peasant movement in Maharashtra.

Bharat Patankar is an activist who has worked for almost 40 years in movements of workers, farmers, dam evictees, agricultural labourers, the drought eradication movement, alternative cultural movement, women's liberation movement, anti-SEZ and coal-based power plant movement based on alternative energy proposals, rights of farmers on windmills, and radical anti-caste movements.

Bharat Patankar was married to writer and activist, Gail Omvedt until her death in 2021.

Bharat Patankar was born on 5 September 1949 in a village called Kasegoan, Dist.

Babuji and Indumati Patankar established the Kasegaon Education Society and the first High School in Kasegaon called Azad Vidyalaya.

Bharat Patankar received his MD degree in Gynecology at Government Medical College, Miraj Bharat Patankar has been a full-time activist since 1973.

Bharat Patankar has participated in numerous movements since then and has led many struggles from urban textile workers to rural farmers and labourers fighting for equal water and land rights.

Bharat Patankar had been a close associate of Dalit Panther activists in early period as part of the then-existing Magowa group.

Bharat Patankar is one of the architects of equitable water distribution movement in Maharashtra.

Bharat Patankar was one of the rare contributors interpreting the existing contemporary caste system at a theoretical level.

Bharat Patankar was part of a street play group, the collective writer of the plays, a songwriter, and a performer in Samagra Sadak Natak Calwal.

Bharat Patankar was one of the founding members of Krantiba Phule Sanskritic Manch in Mumbai during the late 1970s.

Bharat Patankar is a leading activist in the Badwe Hatao movement of Vidrohi Sanskritic Calval and is still leading the movement of Vithoba-Rakhumai Mukti Andolan for deleting recitation of "purush sukta" from the Pandharpur Mandir rites provided for in the Mandir Act.

Bharat Patankar helped with the following irrigation and dam movements:.

Bharat Patankar has presented at numerous seminars and conferences including most recently:.