Child labour
The first incident we could find in the novel was about ‘Duggodu’ who belonged to Mala caste to work as ‘paleru’ in the house of Kotaiah. He was as small as Kotaiah’s son Venkayya. His son left for playing with his friends of his age and at the same time he was sent to school for education and but this poor boy has to do the house hold work and later he had to go for animal gazing which was one of the interesting work for him. This was a violation of human rights in those days around 1920s, which was portrayed very well. We could find the same characters in and around the society in those days. This system continued for a long time in the society.
Kondamudi Papadu’s father Pulladu took Rs.20 from Mallibabu as a loan for interest. But, he could not pay the amount to him. In return, he handed over Papapdu to be a worker (paleru)at him home. Even though he reached to his puberty, he was not relieved from Mallibabu and his life was in chaos. Because some of his friends got married and he had to pay bride price (o-li) for his marriage and he had to pay old debt. But, who would give him money for his marriage? And the adverse conditions of nature made the lives of the farmers and the dependents on the farmers very miserable. As a result, many dalits started migrating to different far places in search of their livelihood. In these conditions, Papadu was left for his fate and his family was also migrated to another place. Brutal killing of Vandanam’s daughter Bhupathi’s son Chinna Ramayya was an abnormal personality. His sadism was seen while he was driving his bullock cart. Instead of controlling his bulls or slowing them down, he drove very harshly and if people were afraid of this he had felt very proud of it. One day he was running his bulls along with cart very fast. Even after reaching the village he continued the same speed and the cart entered into Madigapalli. Then children were playing on the streets and people were shouting and alerting them about the cart. But, Vandanam’s daughter was below two years old who could not understand what was happening, by the time the cart reached there and passed on her stomach and the intestines came out with uncontrolled bleeding the girl died. Instead of appealing for justice, a nominal amount was paid to Vandanam for the incident happened. …show more content…
Violation of women rights
The evidences of violating rights of women are evident in this novel. The three incidents show the conditions of women in those days. The rights of women were violated in the form of molestation in Ondrumatti. Those incidents are:
One day Madiga Nallodu’s wife Rahelu went to work as usual. After the work, though her children were waiting for her at home, she needed to gather tender green grass to her buffalo’s female calf. So, she fell behind of others and was plucking the grass. Within no time, Nandayya came and hugged her from back side and this was an unexpected happening to her. As she was working from the morning and she did not has both mental and physical courage to protest him. Finally she could not protect herself. On the day of trapeze (Atla tadde) festival, Yerukala Yellamma, a teenage daughter of Buchchodu made up herself very attractive. …show more content…
Though many naughty people had their eyes on her tender beauties, her father and mother were protecting her form the people. Because, Yerukala was a marginalized caste and they were very weaker section in the society. At the dawn, Yellamma went out for excrement. At that time, Kondayya went to call labour to work in his field next morning, and he observed her going. Then, he was waiting on her way to home. When she started to her home back, suddenly he attacked her. Despite of her crying and protesting, he did not leave her. When her parents were searching for her, she was found in a fainted condition in the hut which was abandoned. Sri Rama Navami is a festival which was celebrated vey pompously in Krishnapuram. That was the festive season of that year. Sarva Kala, wife of Setty (informal
The first incident we could find in the novel was about ‘Duggodu’ who belonged to Mala caste to work as ‘paleru’ in the house of Kotaiah. He was as small as Kotaiah’s son Venkayya. His son left for playing with his friends of his age and at the same time he was sent to school for education and but this poor boy has to do the house hold work and later he had to go for animal gazing which was one of the interesting work for him. This was a violation of human rights in those days around 1920s, which was portrayed very well. We could find the same characters in and around the society in those days. This system continued for a long time in the society.
Kondamudi Papadu’s father Pulladu took Rs.20 from Mallibabu as a loan for interest. But, he could not pay the amount to him. In return, he handed over Papapdu to be a worker (paleru)at him home. Even though he reached to his puberty, he was not relieved from Mallibabu and his life was in chaos. Because some of his friends got married and he had to pay bride price (o-li) for his marriage and he had to pay old debt. But, who would give him money for his marriage? And the adverse conditions of nature made the lives of the farmers and the dependents on the farmers very miserable. As a result, many dalits started migrating to different far places in search of their livelihood. In these conditions, Papadu was left for his fate and his family was also migrated to another place. Brutal killing of Vandanam’s daughter Bhupathi’s son Chinna Ramayya was an abnormal personality. His sadism was seen while he was driving his bullock cart. Instead of controlling his bulls or slowing them down, he drove very harshly and if people were afraid of this he had felt very proud of it. One day he was running his bulls along with cart very fast. Even after reaching the village he continued the same speed and the cart entered into Madigapalli. Then children were playing on the streets and people were shouting and alerting them about the cart. But, Vandanam’s daughter was below two years old who could not understand what was happening, by the time the cart reached there and passed on her stomach and the intestines came out with uncontrolled bleeding the girl died. Instead of appealing for justice, a nominal amount was paid to Vandanam for the incident happened. …show more content…
Violation of women rights
The evidences of violating rights of women are evident in this novel. The three incidents show the conditions of women in those days. The rights of women were violated in the form of molestation in Ondrumatti. Those incidents are:
One day Madiga Nallodu’s wife Rahelu went to work as usual. After the work, though her children were waiting for her at home, she needed to gather tender green grass to her buffalo’s female calf. So, she fell behind of others and was plucking the grass. Within no time, Nandayya came and hugged her from back side and this was an unexpected happening to her. As she was working from the morning and she did not has both mental and physical courage to protest him. Finally she could not protect herself. On the day of trapeze (Atla tadde) festival, Yerukala Yellamma, a teenage daughter of Buchchodu made up herself very attractive. …show more content…
Though many naughty people had their eyes on her tender beauties, her father and mother were protecting her form the people. Because, Yerukala was a marginalized caste and they were very weaker section in the society. At the dawn, Yellamma went out for excrement. At that time, Kondayya went to call labour to work in his field next morning, and he observed her going. Then, he was waiting on her way to home. When she started to her home back, suddenly he attacked her. Despite of her crying and protesting, he did not leave her. When her parents were searching for her, she was found in a fainted condition in the hut which was abandoned. Sri Rama Navami is a festival which was celebrated vey pompously in Krishnapuram. That was the festive season of that year. Sarva Kala, wife of Setty (informal