Mythili Sivaraman was an Indian women's rights and trade union activist.
20 Facts About Mythili Sivaraman
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Mythili Sivaraman was a co-founder of All India Democratic Women's Association and leader in the Communist Party of India.
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Mythili Sivaraman led efforts to drive women's empowerment, particularly of women from the disadvantaged communities, and trade union and labour activism.
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Mythili Sivaraman was a contributor to Economic and Political Weekly, and wrote for publications including Mainstream and the Radical Review.
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Mythili Sivaraman completed her higher education from the Syracuse University in the United States.
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Mythili Sivaraman worked as a research assistant in the Permanent Mission of India to the UN.
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Mythili Sivaraman was a co-founder of the All India Democratic Women's Association with women's leader and fellow activist Pappa Umanath.
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Mythili Sivaraman was a trade union activist affiliated with the Centre of Indian Trade Unions.
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Mythili Sivaraman was a member of the Indian political party Communist Party of India.
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Mythili Sivaraman served the party as a member of its Tamil Nadu state committee.
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Mythili Sivaraman played a major role in publicizing the atrocities of the Keezhvenmani massacre of 1968 and bringing the incident to international attention through her articles and essays.
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Mythili Sivaraman was amongst the first to visit the site of death of forty-four dalit women agricultural laborers and children who were killed when they were leading a strike demanding higher wages.
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Mythili Sivaraman's writings documented the arson committed by upper caste groups.
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Mythili Sivaraman fought off political pressure and her efforts brought the then state government led by Annadurai C N in crisis.
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Mythili Sivaraman argued against the political and economic structures in the country, which she viewed as being concentrated in the hands of few in the upper classes, further perpetuating the economic and political inequalities and placing women at a significant disadvantage both along with social mobility as well as economic mobility.
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Mythili Sivaraman co-founded the socialist periodical Radical Review in 1969 along with lawyer turned politician P Chidambaram and journalist N Ram.
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Some other topics that Mythili Sivaraman wrote on included the agrarian crisis, the Dravidian movement, and workers unions and labour issues.
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Mythili Sivaraman reported on the MRF strikes in 1970s, the Ashok Leyland labour crises, and the strikes at Tablets India.
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Mythili Sivaraman suffered with Alzheimer's disease for over ten years prior to her death.
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Mythili Sivaraman died from COVID-19 on 30 May 2021, at the age of 81.