Dear friends,
We share our grief of the untimely death of Comrade Anuradha at the age of 54, on the 12th of April in the suburbs of Maharashtra as reported in the press. We are told she died being one of the tallest leaders of the revolutionary movement in India, due to cerebral malaria compounded with the vagaries of sclerosis. The Anuradha we know is the dynamic trade unionist; one of the pioneers of civil rights movement in Maharashtra in particular and the whole country as well from the days of emergency. We also know her as a bright academic, a devout teacher and one of the leading theoreticians of the revolutionary people’s movement in India. A visionary, who always dared to flow against the tide, Com. Anuradha Gandhi’s life has left an indelible mark on many; it was a life of such high moral, ethical, political and ideological standards that her death has left a void in the revolutionary, progressive movement of India. More so, for the revolutionary women’s movement of the subcontinent.
Her sincerity, honesty, her child-like simplicity, vivacious, unwavering commitment, acute sense of responsibility, total selflessness in spite of her poor health, made a deep impression on anyone she came across.
Com. Anuradha will always be remembered. By all those who met her, at least once. By all those who lived with her. She could relate at ease equally with the poor, young, old, the revolutionary, progressive, the intellectual… anyone human.
This memorial committee has come together with a task of taking the message of the life of Anuradha to the present and the future with the same principles that she cherished for fighting throughout her life. She remained a song dedicated to the cause of the most oppressed and exploited people of this subcontinent till she breathed her last.
We invite you to the inaugural lecture of Comrade Anuradha Memorial Committee to be held on August 5th 2008, at 3 pm, SSS-I Auditorium, Near Central Library, JNU, New Delhi.
In Solidarity,
Chairperson,
Comrade Anuradha Memorial Committee