Manorama's father, a government servant in the postal department, had mobilised poor people in the villages near their locality to successfully struggle for rights to the land that they had been living on for generations.
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Manorama was awarded a degree in science by Women's Christian College, Chennai, and a masters degree in social work from Stella Maris College.
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Around this time, there were floods that completely submerged the huge slum - Dhideer Nagar, Saidapet - where she was working.
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