Unveiling Power and Passion: Inside Sangamirtha Iyer’s Riveting Memoir of Political Currents
Iyer’s memoir is structured in three epistolary parts. The first is a letter to her paternal Thatha, or grandfather, who was a disciple of Gandhi, and who quit his engineering career to become a diviner and activist in Kallakurichi, India. Just as Gandhi understood that spinning was closely linked to India’s independence movement to achieve economic self-reliance and promote social unity across class and caste lines, Iyer’s Thatha understood that water is closely linked to social justice. Or as Iyer quotes from an ancient text by Thiruvalluvar, “No being can be without water. Nothing can flow for anyone without rain.”
