As a child I used to wonder why the tharavad was an awful place to be for all his protagonists. It had the smell of sadness, misery and disease. The tharavad offered them only pain and distress ...
The only difference is that I am dealing here with a family story set in a more ancient era.” The epic of the Kuru clan could have been the story of a Nair tharavad (homestead) in Kudallur! He once ...