Indira Bai, daughter of Sethu Lakshmi Bayi, who was Queen Regent of erstwhile Travancore, died in Chennai in the wee hours of Thursday. She was 90.
The wife of the late K.K. Varma, founder-chairman of the erstwhile India Meters Ltd; and long-time chairman of the Madras Kerala Samajam, she is survived by son Shreekumar Varma and daughter Shobhana Varma.
Indira Bai was born during the Regency of her mother (1924 to 1931).
Years later, she would become the first woman from the royal family to enrol for college education.
Some of her short stories have appeared in a few magazines and two anthologies of her stories have been brought out.
The cremation will be held at the Besant Nagar crematorium at noon on Friday.
