Sasi K P (14 March 1958 – 25 December 2022)

 Sasi K P

Karuvannur Puthanveettil Sasi was an Indian film director and cartoonist from Bengaluru. Sasi's father K. Damodaran (25 February 1912 – 3 July 1976) was a Marxist theoretician and writer and one of the founder leaders of the Communist Party of India. He started working as a cartoonist while being a student at JNU during the late seventies. He started experimenting with films on 8mm during the early eighties. His documentaries include "A Valley Refuses to Die", "We Who Make History", "Living in Fear", "In the Name of Medicine" and "Voices from a Disaster", Fabricated!, America America, Resisting Coastal Invasion and Development at Gunpoint. Sasi died in Thrissur, Kerala, on 25 December 2022, at the age of 64.