A Telangana Information Trust was set up in 1989 by the intelligentsia to bring out information on injustices done to Telangana. On November 1, 1996, Telangana Vidroha dinam was observed in Warangal by a group of intellectuals headed by Prof. Jayashankar. This gave rise to several popular meetings leading to the formation of several organisations for demanding the formation of Telangana state. Telangana Jana Sabha (1997) and Telangana Mahasabha (1997) facilitated the merger of the movements of the weaker sections with movement for state.

Telangana employees including teachers, Non-Gazetted and Gazetted Officers formed their organizations. The Telangana intelligentsia came together to hold a seminar in Osmania University in 1997 and helped to conceptualise the issues from various angles. The employees, students, writers and cultural activists began holding seminars, lectures, meetings, dhoom-dhams and so on The upsurge produced new cultural activists and their shows became a must in any meeting in Telangana. Between Jagityala Jaitrayatra in 1978 and Warangal Rytukuli Sangham public meeting in 1990, new activism gave new direction to the youth and through them to the rural masses. This period was vital in Telangana movement to prepare the new generation of activists. With this new spirit a number of new organizations were formed.

Many organizational experiments like Telangana Jana Parishad, Telangana Mahasabha, Telangana Janasabha, and Telangana Aikya Vedika were tried out with political enthusiasm and spirit of activism but no political party emerged. It was in this context that Telangana Rashtra Samiti was formed in April 2001.

Meanwhile, Telangana movement was getting expressed in different protest forms like dhoom-dhams (public song and dance programmes), in garjanas (massive public meetings to proclaim the demands) and padayatras (marches). The traditional bonalu (offering to deities), drawing rangoli was also invoked to express the popular Telangana demand. The Telangana service castes expressed Telangana movement in protest-shaving, protest-washing clothes of their customers on streets, and in collective cooking vanta varpu in public places

This massive spontaneous people's movement was going on in the villages between December 2009 and April 2010. Students spearheaded this movement. At this juncture, students formed a Joint Action Committee (JAC) and then the flings of JACs spread to all organizations springing up Hundreds of JACs in Telangana. Hundreds of youngsters committed suicides, shattering their families and Telangana isa sad saga

Sabbanda varnas (all castes) like Chakalis (washermen), Nayibrahmins (barbers), toddy-tappers, Katikaparlu (caste buries the dead), Vamsarajulu,