Gentle basket seller Poochiyappa has big dreams of social mobility for his grandson, Kumaresan, whose parents died years ago in a caste riot that shook their village. When Vellaiyan, Poochi's beneficent but easily ruffled landlord, instructs him to find a choice pig-or "seththumaan", whose meat is fetishized among local gourmands, or denigrated by caste conservatives-... Read all