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Indian poetBorn: January 22, 1934, Aranmula, IndiaDied: December 23, 2020, Government Medical College Thiruvananthapuram, Thiruvananthapuram, IndiaSpouse: Dr K Velayudhan Nair (m. ?–2003)Children: Lekshmi DeviAwards: Vayalar Award, Odakkuzhal Award, Vallathol AwardName SugathakumariReal Name SugathakumariNickname SugathakumariProfession PoetDate of Birth 22 January 1934Age 86Date of Death 23 December 2020Father Name Yet to be updatedMother Name Yet to be updatedHeight Yet to be updatedWeight Yet to be updatedZodiac Sign / Sun Sign Not knownReligion HinduEducational Qualification GraduatedHobbies Reading, writingHometown Aranmula, Kerala, IndiaNationality IndianMarried yesSpouse Name Dr. K. Velayudhan Nair (died 2003)Current City Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
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Her parents were the poet and freedom fighter Bodheswaran and V. K. Karthiyayini Amma, a Sanskrit scholar.Sugathakumari’s husband Dr. K. Velayudhan Nair (died 2003) was an educationist and writer who was an expert in educational psychologySugathakumari’s elder sister Hridayakumari was a literary critic, orator and educationist.Sugathakumari received the Bhattia Award for Social Science, the Sacred Soul International Award, the Lakshmi Award for social service, and the first Indira Priyadarshini Vriksha Mitra Award from the Government of India for her efforts in environmental conservation and afforestation.In 2006, she was honoured with Padma Shri, the country’s fourth-highest civilian honour.Sugathakumari’s husband Dr. K. Velayudhan Nair (died 2003) was an educationist and writer who was an expert in educational psychology.They had a daughter.Sugathakumari’s elder sister Hridayakumari was a literary critic, orator and educationist.The Kerala government declared Sugathakumari’s ancestral house, Vazhuvelil Tharavadu, as a protected monument on her 84th birthday.Sugathakumari died on 23 December 2020, due to complications from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in India, at the Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram, thirty days short from her 87th birthday.Sugathakumari was born in Aranmula on 22 January 1934in the modern day southern Indian state of Kerala (then in the Kingdom of Travancore).Her father Keshava Pillai, known as Bodheswaran, was a famous Gandhian thinker and writer, who was involved in the country’s freedom struggle. V. K. Karthiyayini Amma, her mother, was a well-known scholar and teacher of Sanskrit.Sugathakumari was the second of the three daughters of her parents, following an elder sister named Hridayakumari, and preceding a younger sister named Sujatha Devi, both of them who excelled in literary field.After graduating from the University College, Thiruvananthapuram, Sugathakumari completed her master’s degree in philosophy in 1955, and spent three years researching on the topic of ‘Comparative Study of the Concept of Moksha in Indian Schools of Philosophy’, but did not complete the thesis.
