She married E Balanandan on 1 September 1957, before completing her intermediate studies at SN College for Women, Kollam.

Balanandan has written in his autobiography that Sarojini used to work as a dairy farmer, raising buffaloes and cows to meet household needs during the Emergency.

[2] In the 1970s, women's activists, including Sarojini fought against the hoarding of essential goods by some wholesalers in Ernakulam Broadway, causing excessive price hikes.

The women leaders who participated in the strike were beaten up by the shopkeepers and their goons who lowered the shutters of the shop and locked them inside.

In 1986, Sarojini was beaten up while participating in a labor rally held as part of the CITU's all-India strike.