Behind Our Sip of Tea: An Ecofeminist Study of Environmental Refugees in Kokilam Subbiah’s Mirage

Women, in general, have been victims of so many oppressive factors such as domestic violence, gender inequalities, and patriarchal oppression all the contexts personal, social, cultural, professional. Furthermore, they often bear brunt natural calamities tsunami, famine, drought, wildfire, hurricane manmade disasters like war, industrialisation, urbanisation on, when compared to men. Many ecofeminists researchers studied homogeneity between women nature, similarity their traits, subjugation by powers, resultant plight, under various discriminative race, caste, class, religion, culture, colonialism. This paper aims explore additional challenges faced refugees climate portrayed Kokilam Subbiah’s Mirage, through lens ecofeminism. Throughout novel, Subbiah has captured lives metaphorical representation nature. study also attempts underscore parallelism refugee nature how are closely intertwined with each other victimisation resilience endeavours veracity universality Warren’s premise “naturalizing women” “feminizing nature” reference novel Mirage. Keywords: refugees; naturalising women; feminising nature; patriarchy;