I had wavered between their worlds and their truths, and had found that just as I declared my loyalty, the truth had shifted, and the world had changed. I have always been uncomfortable in my own skin, as if I was wearing a hair shirt made to somebody else's measurements. I stopped at every moral crossroads, paralysed, unable to choose.
A woman from a Devadasi family marries a Brahmin man: The Undoing Dance, which draws from the author learning from Kittappa Pillai, tells the tale of worlds in flux, of what it means to embody one's art, & of how change tears down as much as it builds up.