A V Kuttimalu Amma was born in Anakkara Vadakkathu family of Ponnani Taluq
in Malabar, in 1905. She was a courageous freedom fighter and a prominent leader. Her
husband was the former KPCC President and Minister in Madras state, K. Madhava
Menon.
Entering public life as a swadeshi and Khadi worker in 1930, Kuttimalu Amma
soon became a popular figure. She led groups of women in the picketing of foreign cloth- shops in Kozhikode in the year 1931.During the Civil-Disobedience Movement; she was
arrested and convicted for two years. When she was restricted from taking her two month
old baby with her to prison, she argued effectively quoting the law, and succeeded in
carrying the child with her. She was again locked up in the Presidency jail during the Quit
India Movement.
In 1944 she became the president of KPCC and took up the task of organizing
Congress in Malabar. She served as a member of AICC and congress working committee.
She also worked as the Director of Mathrubhumi for some time. She passed away in 1986.
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