This Celebrated Poet Also Saved the Silent Valley & Turned a Barren Hill Green
While Sugathakumari’s poems initially began as accounts of a tragic quest for love, her work eventually evolved to incorporate feminist responses to increasing social and environmental injustice and disorder.
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In the 1970s, a massive environmental movement was sweeping the nation. The Save Silent Valley campaign was India’s largest environmental debate that decade a call to save the Silent Valley, one of the last undisturbed tracts of the Southern Western Ghats’ mountain rainforests, from being flooded by an imminent hydroelectric project. The Valley is home to rich endemic biodiversity and a few indigenous communities.
Eminent Malayalam poet-activist Sugathakumari dies of COVID-19 complications
A former Kerala State Woman s Commission Chairperson, Sugathakumari was honoured with Padma Shri in 2006. (Image: Twitter/vijayanpinarayi)
Malayalam poet, writer and environmentalist Sugathakumari passed away on Wednesday while undergoing treatment for COVID-19.
The 86-year-old, undergoing treatment for post-COVID-19 complications at Thiruvananthapuram Medical College, breathed her last at 10:52 AM.
Fondly known as Sugatha Teacher by her hundreds of admirers and followers, the activist-poet had been admitted to the intensive care unit of the medical college after being diagnosed with the viral infection on December 21.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan condoled the demise of Sugathakumari and tweeted, Deeply saddened to learn of the passing away of poet Sugathakumari. As a doyenne of Malayalam literature and with a career that spans decades, she has left an indel
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Renowned Malayalam poet-activist Sugathakumari dies of Covid-19 complications
For the past one week, Sugathakumari had been hospitalised with severe pneumonia after testing positive for Covid-19. Doctors said she was suffering from bronchopneumonia, a condition that causes inflammation in the air sacs in the lungs. Updated: December 23, 2020 9:01:30 pm
Sugathakumari was an influential voice in the field of Malayalam literature with her works garnering all the major accolades on offer in the country. (Source: Wikimedia commons)
Acclaimed Malayalam poet and environmental activist Sugathakumari passed away Wednesday following Covid-19 complications at the Medical College Hospital in Thiruvananthapuram. She was 86.
For the past one week, the Padma Shri awardee had been hospitalised with severe pneumonia after testing positive for Covid-19. She was on ventilator support after her body stopped responding to medication. Doctors said s
Malayalam poet-activist Sugathakumari dies of COVID-19 ANI | Updated: Dec 23, 2020 13:13 IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], December 23 (ANI): Malayalam poet and environmental activist Sugathakumari passed away here on Wednesday while undergoing treatment for COVID-19.
The 86-year-old was undergoing treatment for post-COVID-19 complications at Thiruvananthapuram Medical College.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan condoled the demise of Sugathakumari and tweeted, Deeply saddened to learn of the passing away of poet Sugathakumari. As a doyenne of Malayalam literature and with a career that spans decades, she has left an indelible mark on Kerala s cultural life. We extend our deepest sympathies to her family and join them in sorrow.
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While Sugathakumari’s poems were deeply meditative and lyrical, her political views often triggered a debate
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While Sugathakumari’s poems were deeply meditative and lyrical, her political views often triggered a debate
Five years ago, when cow vigilante groups began to unleash terror in the north, poet Sugathakumari wrote an article in a newspaper in which she took beef eaters for Muslims, putting the onus on them not to provoke cow-worshippers.
Around the time, she also gave audience to then Bharatiya Janata Party national president Amit Shah who was touring the State ahead of the impending Assembly elections. While her article decried political and religious violence, there was no reference to the violence fomented by Hindutva outfits which attracted criticism.