Mini Vasudevan

Mini Vasudevan (born ) is an Indian animal rights activist based in Coimbatore. She was awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar in 2019.

Life Vasudevan was born in about 1965. She was bought up without pets but at the age of eleven she saw a chicken being killed and decided that she would become a vegetarian. She graduated from the College of Engineering. and she and her husband worked in America for thirteen years.

Mini Vasudevan is an alumnus of Sainik School, Kazhakootam 1982 batch.

In 2004 Vasudevan, now a vegan, and her husband, Madhu Ganesh, In 2019 she had three dogs of her own and the Humane Animal Society employed seventeen people.

In 2019 she was chosen by the Ministry of Women and Child Development to receive the Nari Shakti Puraskar which is the highest award in India for women. She was surprised by the phone call the month before and she had to go to New Delhi for the ceremony.