The former AIDWA vice-president drew people’s attention to the massacre of Dalits in Keezhvenmani in east Thanjavur through her writings. CPI (M) leader and former vice-president of the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) Mythily Sivaraman died in Chennai on Sunday. Educated in Syracuse University, Ms. Sivaraman had a promising career in the United Nations. She visited Keezhvenmani with Krishnammal,” said writer and historian V. Geetha, who compiled the essays of Ms. Sivaraman, Haunted by Fire: Essays on Caste, Class, Exploitation and Emancipation, along with Kalpana Karunakaran. Ms. Geetha said Ms. Sivaraman focussed her attention on the issue of casteism and combined it with class struggle.

Source: The Hindu May 30, 2021 03:43 UTC