{"id":2855,"date":"2017-03-14T21:43:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T16:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fableandi.com\/?p=2855"},"modified":"2020-04-04T19:55:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T14:25:54","slug":"poison-of-love-k-r-meera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/poison-of-love-k-r-meera\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poison of Love by K. R. Meera – Haunting Portrayal of a Woman’s Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tulsi seeks solace in Vrindavan after some distressing life experiences. However when her past catches up with her, she is distraught at the consequences.<\/p>\n
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\u201c\u2026Look Tulsi, be practical! No man can ever confine himself to a single woman. That\u2019s the way men are built.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWhat about women?\u201dI asked.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s different. You are genetically tuned\u2026 I am bloody fed up\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is an everyday scene in Tulsi\u2019s life \u2013 an IIT Chennai graduate with a promising future. She leaves her job and a better prospective husband, days before the wedding date, and elopes with Madhav. Madhav is a charming journalist who has an uncanny ability to attract women to himself. He had twenty seven girlfriends before Tulsi and Tulsi prides in being the twenty eighth and probably the last one. But the blissful days of marriage soon wear off and their lives get interrupted with ghosts of Madhav\u2019s past as well as some new faces.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n When we meet Tulsi, she is in Vrindavan and has dedicated her life as a Meera sadhu among widows abandoned by their families. She begs for alms, keeps the temple clean, chants Krishna\u2019s name and earns a daily allowance of Rs. 10, little rice and dal. The narrative goes back and forth between the past and the present to what made a brilliant student end up in a saint-like life.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n