Mythili Sivaraman
Mythili Sivaraman | |
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| Vice President of AIDWA | |
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| Political party | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
Mythili Sivaraman is a women rights activist from India.[1] She is currently one of the vice presidents of the All India Democratic Women's Association (Women's wing of Communist Party of India (Marxist)).[2]
She worked as a Research Assistant in the Permanent Mission of India to the UN (July 1966 to mid-1968). She was involved in research works related to non-self-governing territories and their problems and decolonization in the third world.[3] At the end of her stint in the UN, she returned to India to work with the Left movement and became a well-known trade union organizer and women rights activist.
She played a major role in bringing the atrocities of the Kilvenmani massacre incident to the world through her articles and essays. A collection of her articles and essays about the incident was released as a book named Haunted by Fire.[4]
Mythili also played a very crucial role in Vachathi case. She interviewed many raped victims and documented the facts and represented the case before the Commission for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes.[5]
Bibliography
- Pennurimai (1997), Thamizh PuthagalayamCite error: A
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<ref>tag is missing the closing</ref>(see the help page). - Haunted by Fire (2013), Left word publications