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Sugathakumari The poet of silent valleys and silenced voices
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December 24, 2020 12:23 IST
Sugathakumari stood for nature conservation and the cause of the downtrodden through her poetry and her presence
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Sugathakumari stood for nature conservation and the cause of the downtrodden through her poetry and her presence
When a young Sugathakumari began writing poetry in the early 1950s, she chose to hide herself behind a pseudonym, until she was discovered by poet N.V. Krishna Warrier. But in the decades that followed, until her passing away at the age of 86 on Wednesday, she lived a life much more public than most other poets of her generation, being in the forefront of many an environmental and social movement, with her poetry and her presence.