Natrinai 200 – A shout from the rooftops
Sangam Lit
English - December 24, 2019 07:52 - 6 minutes - 6.44 MB - ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsBooks Arts History Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this episode, we learn of a festival custom in a farming town, as portrayed in Sangam Literary work, Natrinai 200, penned by Koodaloor Palkannanaar. Set in the agricultural landscape of ‘Marutham’, the verse speaks in the voice of the confidante to the potter, rejecting the request of the singer-messenger to seek entry for the man into the lady’s house.