Whirlwind

Podi Eka a village teenager without any education living with his povertystricken mother and sister He cannot even write Amma mother Akka sister mama me Instead he draws three crosses on the wall in charcoal depicting the threesome He works for his stepfather carrying water to the illicit brewery and experiences the rape of his sister by the stepfather the bootlegger and the consequent suicide of his sister He murders his stepfather in vengeance and spends 17 years in jail returning to the village as an adult to help his uncle in farming and cattle rearing He is still called Podi Eka His attempts to start a new life fail on account of the tragic death of his mother and his own brutish desires