Kothapalli Jayashankar popularly known as Professor Jayashankar (6 August 1934 – 21 June 2011) was an Indian academic and Social Activist. He was the ideologue of Telangana Movement. He has been fighting for a separate state since 1952.[2] He often stated that unequal distribution of river water was the root cause of separate Telangana movement.[3] He was the former Vice-Chancellor of Kakatiya University and an activist in the Separate Telangana Movement.