![]() ![]() Soon she realised the enormity of the task at hand. Geetha’s urging, over the next four months, Kalpana started looking for her mother’s writings. ![]() The idea for the book came to Kalpana, Mythily’s daughter, in December 2010, as she was putting together photographs from her mother’s life, “to spin a narrative about her life for myself”.Īt her co-editor V. Launched recently in the Capital, the book is an archive of people’s struggles over two decades as experienced by Mythily, a former Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) activist and vice-president of All India Democratic Women’s Association. Geetha and Kalpana Karunakaran in their introduction to a collection of Mythily’s writings on caste, class, exploitation and emancipation, titled “Haunted By Fire” (Leftword). “The smell of smouldering ash and the eerie wail of a dog looking for and missing the family that had been there until the night before remained with her from that time,” write V. ![]() The sheer pity of the incident would haunt Mythily Sivaraman, who visited the village and wrote about it subsequently, for the rest of her life. In 1968, in one of the worst instances of caste and class violence in Tamil Nadu, 44 Dalit agricultural workers were huddled into a small hut in Kilvenmani village, and burnt alive by feudal landlords. ![]()
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