{{Short description|Indian politician (1945–2009)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Use Indian English|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Mercy Ravi | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1945|3|18|df=y}} | birth_place = Ernakulam district, Kerala, India | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2009|9|5|1945|3|18}} | death_place = Chennai, Tamil Nadu | constituency = | office = | office2 = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | party = Indian National Congress | spouse = Vayalar Ravi | children = 1 son; 2 daughters | website = | footnotes = | source = http://www.niyamasabha.org/codes/members/m416.htm }}
'''Mercy Ravi''' (18 March 1945 – 5 September 2009) was a member of Kerala Legislative Assembly and the wife of the Indian politician Vayalar Ravi. She was also a renowned social worker and author.
==Early life and education== She was born in 1945 in Ernakulam district of Kerala to an elite Christian family.{{citation needed|date=April 2018}} She was the daughter of Kuruvila Katticaren and Thandamma.<ref name="Niyamasabha"/> She was educated at Maharaja's College, Ernakulam{{citation needed|date=April 2018}} and was a post graduate.<ref name="Niyamasabha">{{cite web|last=Niyamasabha|title=Members-Niyamasabha|url=http://www.niyamasabha.org/codes/members/m416.htm|publisher=Kerala Legislative Assembly|accessdate=6 March 2013}}</ref> She married politician Vayalar Ravi, who was also her college senior, in 1969. Ravi later became the Overseas Indian Affairs Minister of India. The couple had one son, Ravi Krishna, and two daughters, Lisa Rohan and Lakshmi Ravi.<ref name="Niyamasabha"/><ref name="All Voices">{{cite news|title=Mercy Ravi laid to rest|url=http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4090447-mercy-ravi-laid-to-rest|accessdate=6 March 2013|newspaper=All Voices|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130410123755/http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4090447-mercy-ravi-laid-to-rest|archive-date=10 April 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Career== Mercy began her political career as a student activist. She held several key positions in the Congress party and was the General Secretary of the party in the Kerala Pradesh Mahila Congress and Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee.<ref name="All Voices"/> At the national level, she was elected as the President of the Indian National Trade Union Congress women's committee in 2000 and as member of All India Congress Committee. She was a representative of the Asia Pacific Region International Confederation of Trade Unions and a member of the Indian delegation to the World Women's Conference in Beijing.<ref>{{cite news|last=The Hindu|title=Mercy Ravi passes away|url=http://www.hindu.com/2009/09/06/stories/2009090653470400.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090909141554/http://www.hindu.com/2009/09/06/stories/2009090653470400.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 September 2009|newspaper=The Hindu|date=2009-09-06|accessdate=6 March 2013}}</ref>
==Death== At the end of her tenure in the Kerala assembly (2001–06) her health deteriorated and she underwent treatment for kidney problems. On 5 September 2009, at the age of 64, she died at the Madras Medical Mission Hospital, Chennai. She was laid to rest in Vayalar Ravi's ancestral home at Vayalar in Kerala's Alappuzha district.<ref name="All Voices"/><ref>{{cite news|title=Vayalar Ravi's wife passes away|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-09-05/chennai/28107410_1_vayalar-ravi-kottayam-general-secretary|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101144547/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-09-05/chennai/28107410_1_vayalar-ravi-kottayam-general-secretary|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 November 2013|accessdate=21 October 2012|newspaper=The Times of India|date=5 September 2009}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ravi, Mercy}} Category:1945 births Category:2009 deaths Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Kerala Category:Politicians from Ernakulam district Category:Kerala MLAs 2001–2006 Category:20th-century Indian women politicians Category:20th-century Indian politicians Category:21st-century Indian women politicians Category:St. Teresa's College alumni Category:Women members of the Kerala Legislative Assembly