One Tuesday, Ponna went to the fair with Pottupaatti. The lady had got her name from the huge pottu, bigger than her brow, that was inked on her. Ponna required organization to walk the five or six miles and however Pottupaatti was awfully sluggish, Ponna requested that she join her. Covering her head with a crate, Ponna handled the sun as she strolled. Their forward venture was smooth. She purchased sufficient stuff to most recent seven days. She even got titbits like pears and puffed rice with peanuts. Her container was full. The elderly person had no cash on her. Feeling awful for her, Ponna got her a few puffed rice with peanuts for one anna and dropped it in her bushel. Returning, the lady commented nonchalantly, ‘You have purchased nearly nothing. Do you have a kid crying at home? Your significant other and you are safeguarding a legacy that god knows which pitiful canines will guarantee later. How about you eat what you like? Whom would you say you are as a rule so closefisted for? A lady without her significant other and a legacy without a main successor are something similar, they say.’ Ponna was angered. She had compassion for the elderly person, yet presently she got shooting her mouth going. ‘You and your better half had no control and you were delivering children in any event, when you were fortyfive. You split your property between them. Do any of your children work the land now? Didn’t it go as awful as not having beneficiaries? You don’t have anybody to give you a cash to go to the fair. You don’t have cash even to purchase yourself some puffed rice. What have you achieved by bearing youngsters?’ Ponna ensured the lady heard each word plainly and stepped off. The lady couldn’t utter a word. She was maybe terrified that assuming she said much else Ponna could wreck her. Be that as it may, she addressed others once she arrived at the town. ‘Do you have any idea what happened when I went to the fair with that witch?’she started and told the whole town her story of hardship. In her form, the elderly person had caringly proposed that Ponna should get a few snacks for her significant other. To which, clearly, Ponna had answered, ‘It is a result of your indiscreet spending that you lost all your territory. Both your property and mine are properties with no beneficiary.’ All of it came to Ponna’s ears. Neither Pottupaatti nor her little girl in-regulation addressed Ponna after that. Ponna thought it best not to say much else. It appeared to be that individuals who had youngsters could do anything they needed that main they had such freedoms. However, Ponna knew about her harsh tone and what it could release without warning. Dreading the results of such an eruption, she attempted to be extremely cautious in broad daylight spaces. In any case, some way or another or the other, a fight would result. Indeed, even her neighbor Sarasa had a senseless assumption that Ponna ought to pass on things to her kids. All things considered, Ponna herself had none. Sarasa’s kids joyfully grabbed kuzhambu, rasam and anything from Ponna’s home. At times, she even caused them to eat there. Notwithstanding the chat of those kids, she would just need to pay attention to her own reverberation ricocheting off the dividers. In this way, she was exceptionally adoring towards them. The more established young lady played snakes and stepping stools and hopscotch with Ponna. Then, at that point, they’d both brush their hair and enhance it with blossoms. The young lady wouldn’t fret getting little things done for Ponna. It so happened that Sarasa’s brother by marriage was getting hitched. The young lady was from Kollaipalayam, which was only two towns away. Sarasa had demanded that Ponna come quite a bit early. However, since it included getting a lot of different ladies prepared, Ponna got postponed. How should Ponna go all that distance alone? Approximately ten or fifteen of them went together. Before everyone, Sarasa offered an insulting comment. Maybe it was her approach to showing that she was so near Ponna. ‘Notwithstanding my advising you to come early, you are showing up just at this point. Did you get deferred in preparing your girls?’ She was flaunting that she had youngsters while Ponna didn’t. Her ridiculing tone stung her. A couple of the ladies snickered at Sarasa’s comment and checked Ponna out.