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 Next she describes that there were stalls of sweet and fried snacks and other shops next
to each other. There were street lights that turn violet from
 He had a lemur an animal that looks like a monkey in a cage. He was a seller of needles,
clay beads and some instrument used for cleaning ear.

 These sights of various things were so entertaining for her that it prevents her from going
further.
 The writer says that sometimes, the people from various political parties would come in
their street and put up a stage to deliver lectures for all of us.
 Sometimes street plays, puppet show and no magic no wonder acts were also staged in
the street.
 So basically there was a regular display of such entertaining acts in the street. the
opposite side of the street there was a newly made threshing floor, a flattened outdoor
surface made to separate grain from straw.
 The landlord was sitting on a stone shelf and was watching people work in his field. She
then describes the labourers who are working in the field.
 They belonged to the writer’s community. She says that they are very hardworking and
they were driving the cattle in pairs in the field.
 They were doing so to separate the grain from the straw. Further, she says that the
mouth of the animals was covered so as to stop them from eating grains. All this was
such a fun to watch for her
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 THE MOST HUMOURISTIC SCENE

 Then she saw an elder person, who was her neighbour coming from bazaar. He was
carrying a packet of some snack with him.
 The manner in which the old man was walking made her burst in laugh. He was handling
it at some distance from his body.
 She says that she came to know that the packet contained vadai or green banana bhaji.
She guessed it because of the oily spots on the packet.
 The man was carrying it by the threads. This made the writer think that this way of
handling a packet could lead to fall of its contents.
 After watching all this she went back to her home. She narrated the whole incident of
the old man to her elder brother.
 She was laughing out by recalling the way that big man was handling the packet.

HER BROTHER’S REACTION

 But her brother Annan didn’t found it funny. He told her that the man wasn’t being
funny, He did it because we belong to a lower caste.
 People from upper caste do not touch us as this would make them impure. Even the
food should be handled by the strings if it is for the upper caste, that is why the old man
was carrying it like this.

CASTE DISCRIMINATION-A NEW TERM FOR HER

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