by Madhu Purushothaman
Gowri’s world is jolted when her sister is subjected to smarthavicharam, a trial for adultery for Namboodiri Brahmin women, after being accused by her sister’s husband Balaraman. Her sister is convicted, deemed a sathanam (an inanimate object) and given away to the untouchables. Contact with untouchables was forbidden for a Namboodiri, yet Gowri attempts to rescue her sister from the untouchables. For that she needs to fight the Namboodiri social system despite the limitations of a Namboodiri woman - she has to wear a veil in public, has restrictions on travel outside of her home and is restricted from talking to males except her immediate relatives.
Gowri fights her battles with the help of two of her friends from a different strata of the society, who both have their own battles to fight too. When a spate of mysterious murders of teenaged girls happens in their village, the three girls find out that the murders are interconnected and their own fates are tied to them. Despite the odds being stacked heavily against them, the girls fight back even as a set of intertwining events binds their fates together.
Black Peppers is set in 1742 AD in a cluster of hamlets in the southern region of Kerala in India around the time when the then nascent kingdom of Travancore was taking shape. It also marks a period when European powers were jockeying with one another to establish a foothold in Kerala and take control of the spice trade.
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