A Tea-Seller & a Teacher Set Up India’s Loneliest ‘Library In a Forest’ in Kerala

How the world came to know about this small library in Kerala is when a troop of journalists lead by none other than P Sainath visited Edamalakkudy.

One of the things we take for granted in our lives is a library. Perhaps it is because we can find one at a stone’s throw in most cities, towns and even some villages across India.

But for the Muthuvan tribal community living in Edamalakkudy, one of the remotest hamlets in Idukki district of Kerala, the possibility of borrowing books from a library or even have one in their locality was a distant dream.

Until 2010.

That year, two things happened in the hamlet: one, Edamalakkudy became the first hamlet in Kerala to have a tribal gram panchayat and second, a ‘library’ was established at a tiny tea shop at Iruppukallu area of the hamlet.

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