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process, the adopted daughter of Poojammas. Nina discovers that Pramila works as the German Ambassador in Iraq. The Central Agency finally reports that Poojamma was brutally assassinated in a bomb blast by hired goons of a minister in the government at the behest of Dinesh. All culprits are arrested and put in jail. The courts find it as the rarest of rare case. Even as the judge is about to deliver his judgment the prosecution lawyer requests the judge not to give death sentence to the culprits but instead put them in jail for life. When followers of Poojamma protest against the lawyer he points his fingers to Kala who says that death sentence was untenable in the value system of Poojammas. The other half of the story is narrated as a flashback by Kala, the prodigy of Poojammas who joins her as a domestic help but grows to dizzy heights in the Peoples Movement that Poojamma builds up. The trinity of Poojamma, Nina and Kala weave the entire story with all its intricacies. The readers is sure to be caught in this literary cobweb. The way Kala weaves the story of the sexapades of Dinesh and Eeranna in Thailand and in Delhi stuns the American journo. But Kala makes it simple to hear as if it is a daily drama in the life of village dames in rural India. The emergence of Pramila who is the adopted daughter of Poojammas, her bold and beautiful foray into the house of Eeranna to execute his political downfall, her ascent to become the German Ambassador in Iraq etc. add a lot of spice to the story not allowing a moment of boredom to the reader. The convergence of different castes for peace, the political battles of Poojamma and her followers, the successful land struggles of ordinary village people, the reversals of political fortunes of Eeranna and Dinesh, the sexapades of other politicians, the huge popularity of Poojamma among the poor, the emergence of Pramila the genius daughter of Poojammas, the intervention of Secretary of State of the US, the setting up of an award in memory of Poojamma, the stepping into the shoes of Poojamma by Kala etc. etc. add a lot of Indian fragrance to the mystery of character building and plots of the novel. Add to this the writing style of M C Raj and you will get confused if you are reading a fiction or a true story. And indeed the novel is based on many true incidents with a heavy doze of fictional flavor. Even the personality of Poojamma is a heady mix of fictional and real life characters. This novel is bound to take the reader on a roller coaster of many fictional intricacies. Poojamma is indeed a path-breaking novel in the realization of womans centrality in human history.