Famous autobiographies in malayalam

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[I am translating Kochattil Kalyani Kutty Amma’s autobiography that she published in 1991 and started writing at the age of 86, Pathikayum Vazhiyorathe Manideepangalum (The Wayfarer and the Wayside Lamps). Kalyanikutty Amma was a remarkable woman of her times when the first-generation of modern educated women were beginning to make their mark on cultural life in Malayali society. She was the daughter of a well-known medical practitioner Dr Moothedathu Krishna Menon and Kochattil Kochukutty Amma, and was educated in the Queen Mary’s College, Madras. She returned to her hometown Thrissur in the early 1920s and taught in the VG High School for girl students for more than 30 years. Outspoken and bold, she participated in the controversial inter-caste dining organized by the well-known anti-caste crusader Sahodaran K Ayyappan and married the freedom fighter and Gandhian C Kuttan Nair (and so she is also known as Mrs C Kuttan Nair). In the 1930s, she travelled all over British India to attend the All-India Women’s Conference and All-India Educational Conference meetings, acquiring a uniquely cosmopolitan sensibility. Her conversation with Gandhi about artificial contraception gives striking evidence for this.

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