Women-liberation is a matter very close to the heart of Bharathidasan. He wanted women to be freed from all restraints - particularly from the traditional taboo on their free mingling with the community, and from the irrational convention binding on their social behaviour, particularly the social restrictions on widows. He paved the way for women to claim equal rights and achieve parity with men. He advocated, and encouraged remarriage of young widows, at a time when such an act was decried as a sacrilege. When all traditions and conventions, were considered sacrosanct, he exhorted the women to break their shackles and to overthrow the restrictions imposed on them. Today we find women in every walk of life arts, poetry, research, sports, security and what not. The seeds for this progress were sown by people like Bharathidasan.