Accordingly Eloor Edayar industrial belt in Ernakulam district is often in the news for the pollution of the Periyar River which passes through the region, but in a small village called Muppathadam in this industrial belt, lives 70 year old Sreeman Narayanan, who has been functioning as a one man army to protect nature. Meanwhile with summer intensifying, he is on a mission to distribute 10,000 earthen pots for free to people who are willing to provide water for the hapless birds reeling under the scorching heat.
Sreeman said “With summer worsening, most of the water sources of the birds have dried up. Not only humans, but animals too get affected due to the increase in temperature and suffer from dehydration. From this single mud pot, at least 100 birds can drink water”. Furthermore from an award winning writer to a wholesale lottery dealer, Sreeman wears many labels, but he likes to be known as a person who has embraced the Gandhian way of living.
Moreover Sreeman has been engaged in all his social work under the banner 'Ente Gramam Gandhijiyilude', meaning my ‘My village through the ways of Gandhiji’ for the past six years. He started full-time social work by distributing about 5,000 copies of The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography. He has dual postgraduate degree holder in Malayalam and Economics, Sreeman bagged the Kerala State Institute for Children’s Literature award in poetry for his work Kuttikalude Gurudevan in 2016 and has also written a couple of other books.
