![]() Men come, and perch their chins on her shoulders. She rejects some men, without the intention of rejecting. She’s rubbed against and grazed, and she can’t quite classify those touches. ![]() We find Ponna in the middle of this festival, where the lights are bright, colourful and hazy, and the mood, that of ecstasy and feverish enjoyment. The intertwining of the two affects us as readers as well. But Murugan’s is different: They’re languorous, subtle and thrive on an ambiguous form of morality, one that mixes a very human inability to figure out the right from the wrong. Most steamy scenes start slow and then build up. ![]() A little recap of the story: A childless couple, Kali and Ponna, find themselves at crossroads when the wife is slyly taken by her in-laws and parents to a famous chariot festival dedicated to lord Ardhanarishvari (half-man, half-woman hence the title), where sex with strangers is cool, and the subsequent child is considered a blessing. I admit I wasn’t exactly comfortably placed when I reached Chapter 32, perched on my rickety office chair that was susceptible to sudden, umm, quivers upon the slightest movements. ![]()
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