Dr Komarraju Acchamamba Centenary Celebrations: Events in Hyderabad

REVIEW FOR DR KOMARRAJU ACCHAMAMBA CENTENARY...

She was a doctor, freedom fighter, communist, health activist and cultural worker. That's 5 things more than just any lady in power in India today. 100 years after she was born, meet her again today.

Asmita Resource Centre, along with Dr Komarraju Acchamamba Centenary Committee, is organising the centenary celebrations of Dr Komarraju Acchamamba, a doctor, freedom fighter, communist, health activist and cultural worker, on 6th October, at Sundarayya Vignana Kendra.

Asmita is celebrating Dr Acchamamba's centenary year with a series of meetings in most districts of Andhra Pradesh, beginning with Vijayawada, where she lived and died, and concluding with Hyderabad. The meetings comemmorate her contribution and raise awareness on the cross-cutting issues of violence, health, human rights and culture, that were so central to her ideology.

Dr Acchamamba's colleagues Mallu Swarajyam, Kandapalli Kateshwaramma, Tapi Rajamma and Satyavati will be felicitated by Padmasri Jeelani Bano, followed by speeches sharing their memories of the eminent lady. There will be a literary ballet called Voices From History, in which renowned writers like Mrinalini, Volga, Vindhya, Jupaka Subhadra and Sudha will participate.

Dr Acchamamba (1906-1964) pointed out at the beginning of the century that health was a political issue. Her father Komarraju Lakshmana Rao was an eminent historian. Born in Guntur, she studied in the Egmore Presidency Training Institute and at the Queen Mary