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Just the holding on.

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By midnight, the river Korethu had forgotten its course. Just the holding on

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Appu woke before dawn. Today was a special day—the festival at the temple down in the valley, but more importantly, it was the day the "Karimeen" (Pearl Spot fish) were to be harvested from the stream pools, a delicacy only the Poorikal knew how to catch with traditional bamboo traps.

: It is traditionally performed by men who move in a circle around a sacred lamp (nilavilakku). The performers are trained in both dance and Kalarippayattu

He told his father about the time Amachi had hidden his grandmother’s wedding ring in a tamarind pod to save it from the tax collector. He told him about the kallukettiya paalam (the bridge of stones) that his great-grandfather had built across the stream, stone by stone, carrying each boulder on his head. He told him about the pooram of 1924, when the water had risen to the temple’s balikkalpura (the sacrificial stone) and the priests had rowed the idol to the hill in a canoe.