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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. Post author: 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, ....
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. ....
Winning bouquets for poetry, brickbats for views Updated: Updated: December 23, 2020 23:42 IST While Sugathakumari’s poems were deeply meditative and lyrical, her political views often triggered a debate Share Article AAA 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. ....