Sugathakumari: A tribute to the

A tribute to the late Malayalam poet and environmentalist who fought for Kerala's forests and rivers for decades. Learn about her role in the Save Silent Valley Movement, her afforestation initiatives, and her literary awards. Sugathakumari was born in 1934 in the temple town of Aranmula, Kerala, to Bodheswaran, an independence activist, Gandhian thinker and poet, and V K Karthiyayini Amma, a well-known scholar and teacher of Sanskrit. She was raised in Thiruvananthapuram. This upbringing naturally catapulted her into a life of literature and philosophy. Sugathakumari later became part of several environmental protest movements in the State, with the most notable in recent times being the protest against the Aranmula airport, which was proposed to ... കവിയും സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യ സമര സേനാനിയുമായിരുന്ന ബോധേശ്വരന്റെ ...