They resembled the sanctuary bull that wandered around openly. After his marriage, Kali was stressed over a kid. Muthu’s folks also talked about it constantly. They even told him with conviction, ‘It is past the point of no return for a youngster now. That is all there is to it. Your machan and you have been extraordinary companions for quite a while now. Then what? It is to your kids that he will leave all he has.’
Muthu could have done without the property. He felt such Kali’s reality would acquire some business as usual in the event that he had a kid. The Kali he knew before he wedded Ponna was an alternate man. Chuckling and party were his regular conditions. The second he heard that there was a theater execution happening ten towns away, he’d accumulate a group and go there. Assuming somebody let him know that there was a decent film running in Krishna Talkies in Tiruchengode, he would go. Whenever Muthu first watched a film, he was extremely confounded. Were those individuals moving for truly before him or would they say they were dolls? There were woodlands, houses, royal residences and tunes. Where did they generally come from?
Kali highlighted the projector room at the back. Muthu was wonderstruck at how all of that was getting through a little opening in the divider. The film administrator there was an associate of Kali’s. They smoked together some of the time. There were various things Kali used to do. Presently he bound himself to the farm. The steers and the portia were all that he required. Muthu felt he was unable to pass on Kali to this way of life. He should have been hauled out of this. Furthermore, having a youngster could make it happen. Thus, regardless of whether this was the final hotel, Muthu was resolved he ought to some way or another send Ponna to the fourteenth day of the celebration that year. He didn’t have the foggiest idea how to propose this point with Kali.
However, he needed to. Additionally, regardless of whether he addressed Kali, and regardless of whether Kali gave his authorization, he needed to ensure Ponna went to see the divine beings. Muthu was sure of that. nineteen When Muthu entered the farm, Kali was taking care of the cows. ‘I’m remaining here this evening, mapillai!’ Muthu yelled out to him. It seemed like the whole farm was attempting to hold back an extraordinary fervor inside it. There was delight all over as well. At the prospect of a night in the farm with his close buddy, a celebratory state of mind swarmed his psyche. ‘Machan, does drink do the trick, or do you need arrack?’ he asked Muthu. ‘In the wake of drinking drink consistently now, it has lost its punch for me, mapillai.
Check whether you can get some sharp arrack.’ ‘Good. I’ll be back,’said Kali, and took the ochre dhoti that was holding tight the snare, tied it over his undergarment, and left. ‘Will I likewise kill a chicken?’ he inquired. Muthu answered, ‘Have you failed to remember the guidelines of the quick? We can do all that on the last day of the celebration. Not today. I have requested that Ponna bring supper here. She will bring something soon. You can definitely relax.’ Kali shut the covered entryway behind him and mixed with the murkiness outside. Muthu realized he would go to Munia Nadar and get some great stuff. The second the sanctuary banner was lifted in Tiruchengode and the celebration was on, you couldn’t so much as smell a fish.
That was the manner by which rigorously the standards of the quick must be observed. After the fourteenth day, the injuries were loose. There would be no deficiency of cows, goats and pigs. Additionally, lines of bullock trucks conveying containers of fish from Pallipalayam and Kokkarayanpettai would begin spilling into town. At the point when they were young men, they went together to crowd dairy cattle. There was a tough stretch of land between the two towns. It was all around as high as two coconut trees and was basically as wide as the living quarters of the town. Individuals called it Narikkaradu, the Fox Land.
In the fundamental development season, that was the nibbling ground for dairy cattle. In what resembled something organized out of enormous rocks, there were a lot of short trees and brambles. Which began as time spent together keeping an eye on the group formed into a companionship. They wandered around together, and they didn’t have anything to stow away from one another. When the Tiruchengode celebration began, they meandered about the roads of the town each and every day for a really long time. They could walk and run the eight-mile distance in thirty minutes. Not that they expected to arrive in any rush. In the long periods of Chithirai and Vaigasi, they would sit in the front yards of various houses and play with the young ladies.