Saraswathi Gora

Saraswathi Gora ( born September 28, 1912 in Vizianagaram, † August 19 2006 in Vijayawada ) was an Indian activist. She is known as a long-standing leader of the Atheist Centre and fought against untouchability and the caste system.

She was married at the age of ten years with Ramachandra Rao Goparaju. Together with her ​​husband she founded the Atheist Centre with the aim of promoting human values ​​on the basis of atheism, rationalism and Gandhism.

As a political activist for the liberation of India was jailed during the Quit India Movement, where she took her two and a half year old son Niyanta.

At the marriage of their eldest daughter Manorama with Arjun Rao 1960, also Jawaharlal Nehru.

In 2001 she was awarded the Basava Puraskar by the Government of Karnataka, the GD Birla International Award for Humanism, the Jamnalal Bajaj Award, the Janaki Devi Bajaj Award and the Potti Sriramulu Telugu University Award.

She is the mother of Samaram.

Saraswathi Gora died 19 August 2006 of pneumonia.