The shift in the time frames, from past to present are seamlessly flowing with respective characters. The novelist has done dense research in every detail of the repertoire, the training of the devadasis, and their style. I was awestruck. It was mind-blowing, to think about how she could even decipher various adavus and various mudras used by us, dancers. -Kalaimamani Dr. Radhika Shurajit, Dancer, Teacher, Choreographer, Chennai This fiction is a standing testament that though times have changed immensely, the bare human emotion towards art and feelings towards fellow human beings remain the same and are truly eternal. A devadasi of the yesteryear would not fret towards a polygamous institution as much as a conditioned woman today would. The ironies are brought out gracefully while normalizing many human emotions, probably considered a taboo by the general public. - Prathik Sudha Murali, Historian, Teacher, Public speaker, Chennai In this fabulous post-modernistic, historical fiction with feministic metaphors, the protagonist Poorna's perspective towards her man reads so much like the modern representation of the temple a woman married to God.