Leaving a promising career with the UN, she returned to India to work as a trade union organizer. Azhar May 30, 2021Ĭomrade Mythili Sivaraman, CPI(M) leader & former vice president of AIDWA passed away due to covid. Do watch the film if you haven't already.

Her contribution to the women's movement and the fight against caste oppression is immense. 'Fragments of a Past' is a documentary on the life and work of Comrade Mythili Sivaraman, who passed away earlier today. Her writings drew people’s attention to the massacre of Dalits in Keezhvenmani. She left a promising career with the United Nations and returned to India to work among the rural poor. Many other expressed their condolences on social media. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin expressed his condolences and wrote that with Mythili’s death, Tamil Nadu and CPI (M) has lost a fierce woman’s rights revolutionary. #MythiliSivaraman /7KDpOeFybQ- ʎɯɐsɐpuɐʞ ɐuǝǝɯ || stand with #palestine May 30, 2021 Her writings on Keezhvenmani have a special place. She'll always be remembered for her work, and her approach of tackling caste, class and gender. Spunky, spirited, articulate, kind, humble. Her writings on Keezhvenmani have a special place.” Poet and writer Meena Kandasamy too remembered Mythili’s fiery personality and wrote, “Red salutes comrade. Red Salute comrade Mythili, from your daughters, comrades in spirit! /lFIzQ3EE2R- Kavita Krishnan May 30, 2021

She was among the first to visit Kilvenmani in wake of the massacre of Dalit workers. A rare and most precious quality of hers was her total lack of any left sectarianism.”Ĭovid-19 took away Mythili Sivaraman today: a v remarkable figure in the Left, TU & women's movements of Tamil Nadu & India. Kavita Krishnan, a CPI (M) leader and Secretary of All India Progressive Women’s Assoctaion (AIPWA), wrote, “Mythili remained a fiery trade union organiser in Tamil Nadu, an AIDWA office bearer, and also a Marxist writer of rare insight and rigour.

Haunted by Fire by Mythily Sivaraman