The (V)anara Bhaktas

The (V)anara Bhaktas

Udayashree Patti sat on her chair rocking back and forth. She looked at them and asked, ‘Well dears, what do you want to know about our quiet village? I guess you know by now that during the times of the British Raj, it was called Aravankolom. Even now old people like me call it by that name. I am 92 years old now. I was born and brought up in this village. I can’t read or write as women were ne...