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Her Signature

Krishna Prasad Sundaram

In 2006 the presidency of a tank village in Sivaganga district is reserved for a woman, and the faction that runs it chooses Solai, a lorry man’s wife, because she will sign what the clerk puts in front of her. She signs nothing she has not read. For five years that one habit works on the council, on her marriage, on a house divided by a palm-leaf wall, and on the tank.