Thrissur: Nandini C. Menon’s fight for a job which was denied to her came to an end on Friday. The 45-year-old amputee died of a heart attack during a dialysis session at the Amala Hospital. She leaves behind her autistic son and volumes of poetry.
Nandini’s fight for justice had prompted the state government to appoint her at the Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit at Kalady on compassionate grounds. She succumbed to her diseases before the formalities were completed.
She was entitled to a job at the university because her husband was a teacher when he died several years ago. The university authorities, however, denied her employment on technical grounds.
With Nandini’s death, her autistic son Yadukrishnan has been left in the care of his aging grandmother. He was waiting in front of the intensive care unit at the hospital when his mother died.
Nandini, who had actively participated in social service activities despite having to amputate a leg, had donated her eyes. She had been working to provide relief to fellow kidney patients even after she was confined to a wheel chair. She had also worked as an advocate and a teacher.
She has translated four major works into Malayalam, including Amitav Ghose’s ‘The Calcutta Chromosome’.