![]() ![]() Anjana is not fully divorced yet, but Mukundan is willing to risk the social faux pas, until he is invited to Power House Ramakrishnan's house for a meeting of the Community Hall Committee. Practicing a folk version of psychotherapy, Bhasi manages to restore Mukundan's self-confidence, so much so that Mukundan takes up with Anjana, a beautiful young schoolteacher. Now, having retired from his job as a factory manager, he's come back to the house he inherited when his mother died-Achuthan lives across the street with his mistress-only to find it haunted by her vengeful spirit. Middle-aged Mukundan departed the village at age 18 to escape his tyrannical father, Achuthan, and left his mother to deal with her violent, adulterous husband. As a healer, he meets his wife, Damayanti, and his path crosses that of Mukundan Nair. Since then, he has happily functioned as the village eccentric and off-hours healer. Driven out of his teacher's position in another village a decade earlier when he got himself mixed up in a disastrously miscalculated romantic entanglement, Bhasi hopped on a random bus and ended up in Kaikurussi. Bhasi, the village house painter, tells part of the tale. ![]() All's well that ends well in Kaikurussi, the storybook Indian village that serves as the setting for Nair's charming debut novel. ![]()
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