VI My marriage took place when I was fifteen. I knew about it only two days before the ceremony. It was customary for the maidservants to inform the girl of her forthcoming marriage. On their way to the pond for…
How was life like for a woman of high birth in Kerala some fifty-sixty years back? Popular belief has it that she had a privileged existence with the joint family set-up and the matrilineal system of inheritance, enjoying all emotional…