Deccan Chronicle
The novel is exquisitely multi-layered in its themes — devadasi, freedom, love, patriarchy, women —peeling back one from the other seamlessly — like strands of a tapestry, separate yet intertwined, all together making up the composite picture of an individual, a community, society, and nation. By narrating the story of the beauteous Kasturi, the dancer par excellence, her sister Thilakam, …
