Sivakami is a captivating Brahmin girl-child married at ten to an astrologer whose horoscope foretells his own early death. By the time she is eighteen, she is a widow with two young children. From then on her life is so circumscribed by caste and custom that, from the moment of her husband's death to her own passing some sixty years later, Sivakami leaves her house just three times.
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