Poetess Sugathakumari was the daughter of nature. She was a mother who was a refuge for the destitute who were subjected to injustice

Letters flowed profusely from her pen for the earth that encompasses, sand, humans, trees and worms.
Her poems were the one that reflected her soft mind and kind heart.

Her demise is a loss for Malayalam language as well as the human society.

The lush greenery in Kerala including that in Silent Valley forest area owes their existence to this mother called Sugathakumari.
Thus hers became a voice of battle for conservation of nature in Kerala.

For women who are the victims of abuse, her warm embrace and words were highly solacing.
Braving criticisms and jibes, she put up a stong fight all through her life.

Being a renowned figure in literary circle, Sugathakumari could have kept herself confined to the world of poetry alone.
But she didn’t. Poetry was her life breath.
Sugathakumari has said that she wrote poems when her mind singed. She wrote romantic poems though.

She was born as the daughter of freedom fighter and poet Bodheshwaran and Prof. Karthiyani Amma.

Her elder sister Hridayakumar and sister Sujatha Devi also shined along with her in the world of literature.
Sugathakumari had said that loss of her siblings had saddened her a lot.

She has said that she and her sisters had grown up hearing her father reciting poems.
Therefore it was natural that poetry came to her easily.
The institution Abhaya founded by her for the orphaned and refugees, is a repository of kindness and compassion.

Sugathakumari's most famous works include Raathrimazha, Ambalamani (temple bell) and Manalezhuthu. Sugathakumari has also made a contribution to the field of children's literature. In 2008, she received an Award for Lifetime Contribution to Children's Literature, instituted by the State Institute of Children's Literature. She also has several translated works to her credit.

She has won numerous other awards for her literary works, including the prestigious Vayalar Award and Ezhuthachan Puraskaram, the highest literary honour by the Government of Kerala. In 2004, she was given the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Fellowship. She won the prestigious Saraswati Samman in 2012, being only the third Malayalam writer to do so. She also won "Pandit Karuppan Award. She was the principal of Kerala State Jawahar Balabhavan, Thiruvananthapuram. She was the founder chief editor of Thaliru, a children's magazine published by Kerala State Institute of Children's Literature.

Muthuchippi, Irulchirakukal, Ambalamani, Krishna Neeyenne Ariyilla, Pavam Manava hridayam, Ambalamani, Krishna Neeyenne Ariyilla, PAvam Manavahridayam, Thulavarsha Pacha and Silent Valley are other literary works.

Though a poet, she keenly watched all happenings in environment, politics and society.
The undercurrent of Sugathakumari’s poems was eternal sorrow and secular feelings.

What we get from her poems are purgation of mind through emotions of pain.

Literary observers have opined that in her poems we can sense classic lineage of Kumaranasan, Changampuzha, G Sankara Kuruppu.
Sugathakumari was Kerala Kaumudi’s great friend and well-wisher. We express our deep sorrow at this moment.