The story opens in the fictional village of , a hamlet nestled between the rolling paddy fields of the Kaveri delta. The village’s name itself, “Thiruppurappu,” translates to “the place where the holy (thiru) and the ordinary (purappu) meet.” It is here that Māmānār , a widowed matriarch of a prominent agrarian family, rules her household with the same authority she once wielded over her own father’s estate.
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