Silambam Master

A body. No wounds. A locked room. And the only witness no one will believe. Madurai, 1944. When a revered silambam master is found dead inside a sealed temple corridor — no wounds, no struggle, both keys accounted for — the colonial machinery moves swiftly to bury the truth. But a low-caste temple sweeper heard the dead man's final words. And a schoolteacher who studied under him can read what the...