Born to the Malayalam poet, Padmabhushan and Saraswathy Samman
awardee, Nalapat Balamani Amma, and V.M. Nair, managing director
and managing editor of Mathrubhumi. Sulochana completed her MBBS
at Calicut Medical College in 1963. Thereafter, she worked as medical
officer on the tea gardens of James Finlay & Company in Munnar and
later, as advisor to the Comprehensive Labor Welfare Scheme of United
Planters Association of Southern India. Sulochana retired in 1994
from the corporate office of Tata Tea, Calcutta, as manager of the
Community Development and Social Welfare Department. Renowned
Malayalam writer Kamala Das’s younger sister, and a writer herself,
Sulochana has authored ten books in Malayalam and a pictorial in
English titled The Story of Munnar.