Renowned Malayalam poet and activist Sugathakumari has passed away. She was
86.
She had been undergoing treatment at the Government Medical College in Thiruvananthapuram after testing positive for the coronavirus.
Sugathakumari has been suffering from bronchopneumonia, a type of pneumonia that causes inflammation in the alveoli or air sacs in the lungs.
The daughter of freedom fighter Bodheswaran and VS Karthiyani, she was awarded the Padma Shri in recognition of her poetry in 2006, and recieved the award from then Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam.
Sugathakumari was also the former chairperson of the Kerala State Women’s Commission.
