The central story of Naalukettu is how the little boy Appunni, thrown out of Vadakkeppatt Tharavad by the head, the granduncle, because the latter’s sister, Appunni’s mother, had run off and ...
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 ...