Like a widow spider who consumes the male once the consummation takes place the women in the novel would be devouring the men by their demands. The men would seem had no life of their own but only slogging for settling the family and yet at the end none entirely satisfied.
Raghu is a character who doesn’t have any normal human demands. This nature of Raghu annoys and puzzles his wife Anu. To find an answer to the puzzle she embarks a journey wher