Shripad Amrit Dange - Dange The Author

Dange The Author

Dange's arrival in the political arena was through the pamphlet Gandhi vs. Lenin that got him two important contacts of his youth: M.N. Roy and Lotwala, the rich flour-mill owner from Bombay. The latter helped him to launch the first ever socialist magazine in India, The Socialist. Mohit Sen said that Dange's articles in The Socialist impressed Lenin himself.

Dange was a keen follower of literature. He had published a book called Literature and People that advocated socialist realism, as opposed to elitism.