[2] She was a former member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from the Vilavancode constituency elected from the Indian National Congress party.

Her daughter, Dr. Abrami Kennedy studied medicine and works as an MD at a private medical college in Chennai.

[4][5] She is great-grand daughter of Tamil poet and social reformer, late Kavimani Desigavinayagam Pillai.

[7] During 2016 she was appointed General Secretary of All India Mahila Congress, Incharge of Karnataka.

[9] And again she got elected for the third time in 2021 consecutively from the same constituency (Vilavancode) in Kanyakumari district.