Updated: Wednesday, December 23, 2020, 14:56 [IST]
Days after testing positive for COVID-19, celebrated poetess-activist Sugathakumari breathed her last today (December 23, 2020). The eminent personality was undergoing treatment at Thiruvananthapuram s government medical hospital. She was 86.
Paying tribute to the renowned poetess, politician and author Shashi Tharoor tweeted, The tragic end has come. As I bow my head in tribute to the departed soul, I recall many moments at her side, from felicitating her Saraswati Samman, to addressing environmentalists alongside her.
Reportedly, Sugathakumari was admitted to the hospital s ICU (Intensive Care Unit) after being diagnosed with the virus on December 21, 2020. The octogenarian was on ventilator support since then. The senior poetess has been fighting against the discrimination and oppression of women in society through her poems.
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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.