Kali and Ponna's efforts to conceive a child have been in vain. Hounded by the taunts and insinuations of others, all their hopes come to converge on the chariot festival in the temple of Ardhanareeswara, the half-female god. Everything hinges on the one night when rules are relaxed and consensual u
One Part Woman
β Scribed by Murugan, Perumal; Murugan, Perumal
- Publisher
- Grove Atlantic;Aniruddhan Vasudevan, Black Cat
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 153 KB
- Edition
- 1. Grove Atlantic paperback edition
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Rural South India, during the British colonial period. Kali and Ponna try everything to please their parents and have a child, but none of the offerings or rituals helps. So Kali and Ponna's mothers agree that Ponna should go to the annual chariot festival, a celebration of the half-male, half-female god Maadhorubaagan
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