Sugathakumari

Sugathakumari (22 January 1934 – 23 December 2020) was an Indian poet and activist. She was an important person in the environmentalist and feminist movements in Kerala, South India.

She was the founder secretary of the Prakrithi Samrakshana Samithi, an organization for the protection of nature and a day-care center for the mentally ill. 

She chaired the Kerala State Women's Commission.

Sugathakumari died on 23 December 2020 from bronchopneumonia caused by COVID-19 at a hospital in Thiruvananthapuram at the age of 86.

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Category:1934 births
Category:2020 deaths
Category:Deaths from bronchopneumonia
Category:Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in India
Category:20th-century Indian poets
Category:Feminist writers
Category:Indian environmentalists
Category:Writers from Kerala