Breaking Free by veteran Tamil journalist-writer Vaasanthi is an inter-generational saga. The story goes back and forth between pre-Independence days and the present. It looks at a time when devadasis, the women who were ‘married off to god’, were the custodians of classical dance and music.
They got grants and land from the temples they were attached to. Over time, as temples lost much of their wealth, the devadasis had to depend on the patronage of rich men for their livelihood.
Breaking Free
Vaasanthi; trs N. Kalyan Raman
Harper Perennial
₹399
