P. Geetha

For feminist writer from Tamil Nadu, see V. Geetha.

P. Geetha
Born	Angadipuram, Malappuram district, Kerala
Occupations	Feminist Writer, critic
Spouse	P. Pavithran
Children	2
Parents	P. C. Parameswaran (father) P. S. Padmini (mother)
Awards	Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award Kerala Film Critics Award Kerala State film Award

P. Geetha is an Indian writer, critic and feminist activist from Kerala. Her work titled Kannadikal Udaykkunnathenthinu (കണ്ണാടികൾ ഉടക്കുന്നതെന്തിന്)is considered as the first feminist critical study book in Malayalam language. She received many awards including the Kuttippuzha Endowment Award from Kerala Sahitya Akademi, Kerala Film Critics Award and the Kerala State film Award.

Biography

P. Geetha was born in Angadipuram, Malappuram district to P.S. Padmini and P. C. Parameswaran. She has served as a Malayalam teacher at Madappally Government College, Malappuram Government College, and Pattambi Sree Neelakantha Sanskrit College.

Her husband P. Pavithran is an activist, literary critic and Malayalam teacher at Kalady Sanskrit University. They have two children, Aparna Prashanthi and Atul P. She currently lives in her house in Angadipuram, Malappuram.

Activism

Geetha writes and speaks continuously in feminist and other social issues. She have faced various forms of humiliation from society because of her stances. She filed a police complaint against the people around her who are continuously making obscene remarks, saying that she is not performing her daughter's wedding and does not know how to respect men.

Contributions

Geetha, who began writing in Mathrubhumi's children's literature section and the Nava tharangam in 1973, became notable in feminist criticism in the nineties. Her critical study book in Malayalam titled Kannadikal Udaykkunnatgenthunu is considered as the first feminist critical study book in Malayalam.

Geetha received a doctorate from University of Calicut for her research on the topic of 'Feminist Approach in Modern Malayalam Poetry'. Along with her feminist writings, she has published a novel titled Ammakkallu, with the main character Gandhari, and three collections of stories.

Books published

• A study book that explores how women's realities and perceptions are recorded.
• A study book that explores how women have appeared on the Malayalam silver screen, using some popular films as examples.
• A comprehensive study of M. T.'s screenplays from a feminist perspective.
• Literary criticism
• This is a historical study that reclaims the lives of women who were ignored and excluded in the history of the 1921 Malabar Rebellion.
• Criticism.
• Criticism.
• This book is a frank account of queer lives in Kerala.
• A novel based on the epic Mahabharata.
• Short story collection.

Awards and honors

In 1998, Her critical study Kannadikal Udaykkunnathenthunu received the Kuttippuzha Endowment Award from Kerala Sahithya Akademi. In 2024, she received the first K. Saraswathi Amma Award, instituted by WINGS (Women's Integration and Growth Through Sports) Kerala, for feminist studies, for her criticism work Aan Thachukal (meaning: male creations) on M.T. Vasudevan Nair's scripts. She has also received many awards including the Thayattu Award for the best poetic literary criticism in 1998, the Lalithambika Antharjanam Memorial Award for the best young critic, the Kerala Film Critics Award, the Samskarika Keralam Award, the Kerala State film Award, the Muthukulam Parvathy Amma Award, the C.N. Ahmed Moulavi Award, and the P.K.D. Memorial Literary Award.