Mythily sivaramans essays range from agrarian unrest, caste oppression, land, labour and wages, the centrality of class struggle, the early promise of change, the radical course of left struggles, the coercive apparatus of the state, issues of impunity, and the way the emergency worked out on the groundmythily sivaraman is an activist and a scholar she was the national vice president of the all india democratic womens association (aidwa) she has been involved in village mobilization and social activism, particularly with factory workers, women and dalits her essays have been published in several leading journals she was the editor of the radical review (196973), and is the author of fragments of a life: a family archive (new delhi 2006)