சஞ்சாரம்

Pakkiri once dreamed of reaching the heights of his art after hearing of the great nadaswaram masters; now he and Rathinam, the senior player in his troupe, perform at weddings and temple festivals in the dry karisal land of southern Tamil Nadu, where music has become only a means of survival as rain-fed farming declines. Rathinam, married and older, swallows every humiliation in silence; the unmarried Pakkiri wants to settle each insult at once. When Pakkiri avenges an insult born of caste prejudice, lives are lost and both men are hunted by the police. Their flight from town to town becomes a way into the history of the nadaswaram tradition, the dignity of its past masters, and the casteism its players still face.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Set in

India

First published

2014 by Uyirmmai Pathippagam