Mythili Sivaraman

Mythili Sivaraman
Vice President of AIDWA
Personal details
Political party Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Mythili Sivaraman is a women's rights activist from India.[1] She is a Vice President 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 related to non-self-governing territories.[3] At the end of her stint at the UN, she returned to India to work with the left and became a trade union organizer and women rights activist.

She played a major role in publicizing the atrocities of the Kilvenmani massacre incident 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 rape victims and documented the facts and represented the case before the Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.[5]

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References

  1. ↑ Mythili Sivaraman - Boston Conference
  2. ↑ Vice president of AIDWA
  3. ↑ Research Assistant at United Nations
  4. ↑ Haunted by Fire, Published by, Left Word Publishing, Bharathi Puthagalayam
  5. ↑ Representation in Vachathi case
  6. ↑ Roja Muthaiah Research Library author page
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