M?le K?v

Book excerpt: Kusumom’s family the village’s occult clan at Eruma Paaraa, motivated Mundan, an ordinary guy, to inherit their black magic Vechu seva. The family took advantage of his ignorance and susceptibility to become wealthy without doing honest labour and his desire to enjoy the fleeting pleasures associated with such black magic power. He relished the delights it afforded him, but when the church and village closed in on him, he lost both his kid and his wife as he had to flee to Ela Pally, another far away hill. However, since he refused to alter his way of life, the Seva had him in a pickle, so things did not go well for him there too. However, his wife and child, who were whisked away to the plains, away from the hills, were fortunate enough to find success in life. But just as everything seemed to be progressing well for the mother and son, the enraged hill gods coerced them to return to their hills. On coming back to the hills, Mundan’s child learned what his hills meant for their life and what their journey back to Eruma Paaraa was all about.