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Filmmaker Sangita Iyer remembers Malayalam poet Sugathakumari, who passed away in Thiruvananthapuram on December 23.
It was the height of irony that a person, who dedicated her life to fight for justice to mother earth, should have been struck down by the same pestilence, which was nature’s punishment to those who caused havoc to the planet.
Sugathakumari, who was undergoing treatment at a private hospital for COVID-19, was shifted to the Trivandrum Medical College Hospital after her condition deteriorated on Monday. She reportedly had respiratory and heart problems.
A recipient of the Padma Shri in 2006, Sugathakumari was awarded the prestigious Saraswati Samman for her last collection of poems 'Manalezhuthu'.
Sugathakumari along with her two sisters, were born and brought up in Thiruvananthapuram. Her father, Bodheswaran was a Gandhian thinker and a poet and Mother VK Karthyani, a Sanskrit scholar.
She is on ventilator support and is not responding to medicines, Medical College superintendent Dr M S Sharmad said.
Noted poet Sugathakumari condemns the case filed against dubbing artiste Bhagyalakshmi, and activists Diya Sana and Sreelakshmi Arakkal, for physically assaulting a man, who posted derogatory YouTube videos against women.