Historical Memories of Captain Sundari

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Historical Memories of Captain Sundari

Historical Memories of Captain Sundari

Captain Sundari
Uruthrapathi Udayalakshmi
Nediyakadu, Valvettithurai
Yarlpanam
Birth: 30.03.1964
Death: 19.12.1990

Martyrdom Event Details: Martyred in the battle with the Sri Lankan forces in the Katuwan Kurumbasitti area.
Thuyilumillam: Ellankulam

Rising from the ashes and becoming a fire

-Captain Sundari

Sundari, a socialite, began supporting freedom fighters even before she took up arms. She was interested in reading and writing and wrote articles for the magazine “Suthanthira Paravaikal”. With the aim of encouraging every woman to join the freedom struggle as an armed woman, she wrote her feelings in the form of a letter only when she was about to leave for the training camp armed with weapons. This letter was included in the ‘Suthanthira Paravaikal’ of May 1987. It is noteworthy that this letter had a suitable impact among young women at the right time.

After receiving weapons training in 1987 and standing in the battlefield against the Indian occupation army, she wrote a poem titled ‘For the salvation of the homeland’ about an attack on the Sri Lankan army in Tamil village also known as Mamadu on 17.01.1989.

From the beginning of 1989 to the end, she was a member of the ‘Suthanthira Paravaikal’ editorial team. In 1989, when the entire country was surrounded by the Indian army, she worked hard from the forest, from writing many articles to doing editorial work and publishing the magazines.

Her ‘Letter from the Field’, published in ‘Freedom Birds’ on 01.06.1989, was written in a light and clear style with no loss of taste. In that letter, she asks her friend, “You are struggling to escape by bumping your feelings against the walls of the house. How long are you going to hide your feelings behind a curtain?” “Why haven’t you got the strength to break the prison for dawn yet?” Questions like these are the arrows of questioning that she has aimed at the young women’s society. But she has also embedded those arrows of questioning like driving nails into a green tree through her writing.

The ideal dream with which she has dedicated her life can be seen to be deeply rooted in all her writings.

“I hope that the impact of being a girl child will not affect you. We are also fighting on an equal footing with male fighters. The armed struggle of our sisters is an example of this. We are not only your daughters, but also the daughters of this race. Therefore, you should not give room for worries.”

She expressed ideas like this through her writing. Sundari stood close to the young community through her writing skills. She became a seed for the liberation of the motherland.

Heroes of the same family:
Captain Vasu
Mayor James
Captain Sundari

(Translation by Kaanagan)