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Remembering Sugathakumari, the Malayalam poet who became the face of environmental activism in Kerala


Remembering Sugathakumari, the Malayalam poet who became the face of environmental activism in Kerala
Till Sugathakumari died, the poet-activist remained a guardian angel of Kerala’s forests, rivers, mountains, coastal regions, wildlife, and precious natural resources.
Mongabay- India
January 06, 2021 17:21:54 IST
Celebrated Malayalam poet and Kerala’s pioneering environmental activist, Sugathakumari. Image via Mongabay-India/ Rahana Habeeb
By KA Shaji
When Malayalam’s celebrated poet Sugathakumari, a pioneer of environmental activism in Kerala, reached the state’s tribal heartland Attappadi during the early months of 1980, the region looked like a barren land with very few trees and no vegetation. The tribal community told her, and fellow poet-activist NV Krishna Warrier, that indiscriminate tree felling, involving timber maf ....

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