Sitaram Yechury is a leading communist politician of India from Andhra Pradesh. He is a senior member of the politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the party`s Parliamentary group leader. Like every other Marxist, Sitaram Yechury has expressed his concern over globalisation, commercialisation and communalisation and its impact on culture in many of his writings and speeches. He also said that the culture of globalisation seeks to divert people from the actual realities of day to day life. He also highlighted communalism as the burning issue in the country and said that such divisive forces weaken the struggle against the existing exploitative order.

Early Life of Sitaram Yechury
Sitaram Yechury was born on 12th August 1952, in Hyderabad. He did his schooling from Hyderabad, after which he moved to Delhi and completed his graduation in Economics from St. Stephen`s College. In 1975, Yechury completed his Masters in economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. In 1974, he joined the Students Federation of India, which is the student`s wing of the CPM. The very next year, Sitaram Yechury joined the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

Political Career of Sitaram Yechury
During the Emergency in 1975, Sitaram Yechury was arrested and as a result he could not complete his doctorate degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University. After the emergency, he was elected as President of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students` Union thrice during one year (1977-78). He was elected the All India Joint Secretary of the Students` Federation of India (SFI) in 1978 and also became the All India President of SFI in the same year. He was elected to the Central Committee of the CPIM in 1985 and to the Politburo in 1992. He is the head of the International Department of CPIM.

Leaving aside several lucrative career options, Sitaram Yechury plunged into politics with the aim to serve the country. Intellectually elite and behaviourally urban, this young political careerist without fighting any elections is deeply committed to the misery of the downtrodden in this country. Radical in his views and extremely media savvy, Sitaram Yechury played a crucial role in convincing the Nepali Maoists to embrace parliamentary democracy instead of the path of insurgency.

Personal Life of Sitaram Yechury
Sitaram Yechury married Seema Chishti, who is a journalist and the former editor of BBC Hindi Service in Delhi. Yechury has a son and a daughter from an earlier marriage.

Men like Sitaram Yechury provide the public with a ray of hope in times of growing disillusionment with the political system.