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Mayilamma: The Life Of A Tribal Eco-Warrior

Mayilamma (1940–2007) was an illiterate adivasi woman whose iconic leadership of her community against the unrestrained extraction and pollution of water by Coca-Cola put the nondescript village of Plachimada on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border on the global map of environmental activism.

Mayilamma: Oru Jeevitham maps the rise of eco-activism in Kerala alongside the realities of consumption, globalisation, widening socio-economic inequalities and the rising ecological burdens borne by the marginalised poor. Swarnalatha Rangarajan and Sreejith Varma’s English translation brings this important Malayalam text into the domain of international environmental justice writing for the first time, and shows how—in a classic David-and-Goliath struggle—this frail fifty-year old widow became a symbol of the global resistance against the multinational soft-drink giant.
Mayilamma’s life story—of an earth-carer intensely involved in the protection of livelihoods and local neighbourhoods—adopts the traditional oral mode of narration, central to the c

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Mayilamma: The Life of a Tribal Eco-Warrior - -on a tribal widow who fights for cause

A story about a tribal woman who fights to save the planet. This is what the book ‘Mayilamma: The Life of a Tribal Eco-warrior’ revolves around.

IIT Madras dean (International and Alumni Relations) Prof Mahesh Panchagnula, has released a book titled ‘Mayilamma: The Life of a Tribal Eco-warrior,’ which was translated from Malayalam into English by Dr Swarnalatha Rangrajan, Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras, and Dr Sreejith Varma R, Assistant Professor, Department of English, VIT Vellore, who was also a former research scholar at IIT Madras.
“I have always believed that humanity is the pursuit of research of humanities, it is the culmination of all efforts towards creating and perfecting technology. The quest for understanding who we are and what the society around us is, are questions central to the pursuit of this group of faculty,” said Prof Mahesh V Panchagnula.
Providing a brief overview of the book, Dr Swarnalatha Rangarajan said, “The English transla

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Mayilamma: The Life of a Tribal Eco-Warrior is an autobiographical account of an Adivasi woman who emerged as a leader in her community’s struggle against the Coca Cola company in Plachimada.

Mayilamma’s story was transcribed by poet Jothibai Pariyadath in 2005. The book initially came out in Malayalam in 2006 with the title Mayilamma: Oru Jeevitham. The English edition which came out in 2018, was translated by Prof. Swarnalatha Rangarajan, of IIT Madras and Dr. Sreejith Varma, of Christ University. The translation makes Mayilamma’s story accessible to a wide global readership.

The Anti-Coca Cola campaign in Plachimada may be seen as one among the trajectory of many grassroots movements in the country and around the world. This campaign is not an issue of production, confined to Plachimada alone. Rather, it raises important ethical questions about consumption on a global scale.

Environmental degradation and the loss of livelihoods

In 1998, the Coca Cola company acquired the permit to set up a bottling plant in Plachimada, a relatively dry village on the Tamil N