‘At the point when Ponna saw somebody like that, she shrank from the inside. In spite of her earnest attempts to encourage, she would be miserable the entire day. There were no words to portray the unparalleled delight sparkling on the essences of ladies who figured out how to have a youngster in the span of an extended time of their marriage. They additionally got out of hand before Ponna. The child, who was giggling up to that point, abruptly snorted. Ponna saw that the child had pooed, wetting the little white fabric tied around her midsection. The odor was overwhelming. What had Kannaaya eaten prior to taking care of the kid? Ponna’s sari also was wet with the youngster’s defecation. ‘For what reason does it smell so severely?
Did you eat anything that you shouldn’t during the celebration weeks?’ Ponna asked as she gave over the child to Kannaaya. She was unable to bear the smell and the sogginess on her sari. Everybody in the truck felt pounced upon by overseeing it by covering and jerking their noses and were attempting. Kali halted the truck at a well by the roadside. Ponna hurried to the well, took some water from the enormous water holder close to it and cleaned herself. Kannaaya cleaned the kid’s legs and feet and furthermore flushed the fabric it was wearing. Why convey the child when she was voyaging up to this point?
Was the god going to be distraught assuming she chosen to come the following year all things being equal? OK, assuming she actually decided to go, shouldn’t she know what to take care of the kid before movement? Ponna was truly irritated. It seemed like the odor from her sari had not completely gone. ‘This is making me heave. Kannaaya, wouldn’t you say you ought to take care of the baby something she can digest?’she said. Also, Kannaaya answered, ‘Poo will smell. Is it just my child’s poop that smells? Does yours smell superb? You’d be aware in the event that you’d had and brought up your very own offspring. You continue to say it smells, as though I don’t have any acquaintance with it!’ The most obviously terrible thing was not Kannaaya’s comment that Ponna didn’t have any idea what it took to bring up a kid.
It was what Kannaaya mumbled faintly from that point forward, which everybody heard at any rate: ‘This childless lady smells a kid’s butt and wriggles at seeing a kid’s poop. How can she hope to be honored with a youngster?’ Ponna broke into cries. Kali didn’t have the foggiest idea what to do. He just offered a general comment: ‘Might you at any point stay silent? These ladies! They can never monitor their tongues.’ But the contention had undulated out among different travelers by then, at that point, and they favored one side. ‘When you have a kid, you will have things like poop to manage. You can’t be queasy about that.’ ‘Indeed, you expeditiously lifted the kid and gave it to its mom. Whom could she at any point hand it over to thusly?
No one. She needs to do it without anyone’s help, doesn’t she?’ It worked out that Ponna was more angry with the expressions of the people who professed to talk on the side of her than the individuals who agreed with Kannaaya’s position. ‘Who can say for sure what revile it is that has kept her childless and languishing? How might you address her like that?’ ‘Had she dealt with a kid previously, she would have improved. She didn’t have the foggiest idea. That doesn’t mean you call her fruitless.’ ‘Don’t cry, Ponna. This time one year from now Perumalsami would have given you a kid.’ Until they arrived at the sanctuary, this was their main subject of discussion. Ponna was distraught at Kali.
Not just had he given Kannaaya a ride in the truck, he had likewise remembered Ponna for his counsel. ‘Do I have an issue controlling my tongue? What might be said about what the other lady said?’ Ponna said. She had since a long time ago lost interest in the divinity, in climbing the slope and in making pongal. Yet, she did it in any case only for it. Fortunately, when they prepared to leave, Kannaaya didn’t go along with them. Her better half informed them that they planned to remain on longer. They could have picked an alternate truck to return by. Returning, everybody in Ponna’s truck reprimanded the missing Kannaaya: she argued, she was egotistical, she was haughty — a wide range of words moved around. Yet, Ponna realize that they felt obliged to denounce Kannaaya in light of the fact that they were in Ponna’s vehicle. At the point when they would meet Kannaaya, they would discuss of Ponna.
She didn’t address Kali for a month after this occasion. ‘Assuming I had essentially agreed with your stance before everybody,’ he said, ‘couldn’t they have said I was simply agreeing with my significant other’s position? That is the reason I offered a general comment. She is a classless lady. For what reason are you viewing her words so seriously?’ But still she didn’t address him. She felt detached from everybody and restricted herself to the house. She likewise took to resting at odd hours. Here and there she cooked, at different times she neglected to.