The Life of a Revolutionary Singer: At 88, P.K. Medini's Fire Still Burns
From the time she was a teenager, the singer has been a staple at Communist party events. She is still fighting for the cause she believes in: creating a just and equal society.
P.K. Medini. Photo: KannanSHANMUGAM/Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0
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In the 1950s, every Communist Party pamphlet in Kerala used to have an essential line: âThe meeting will have a mike and comrade Mediniâs revolutionary songs.â P.K. Medini was a singer even before loudspeakers became a staple at the public meetings. From the time she was a teenager, she had a voice that was captivating and loud enough to soar above the crowds assembled, as she sang poems tuned to popular songs about a world where men were free from their chains and humanity prevails. Her songs sold the dream of an equal and just society and in many ways a dream of a unified Kerala that came about in November 1956 â unifying the three major provinces, the princely states of Travancore, Kochi and the Malabar province.