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| | Literature in the Indian Bhashas: its front yard and its back yard | ಋಜುವಾತು |
 | | This space in the frontyard, framed impressively by massive well-carved pillars was a place of authority, and cheerful and full of new tidings of the temporal world outside, as well as of the spiritual world beyond. |
 | | There were only men in the frontyard, and if women came at all, they were taken inside, a cool dark hall, which was the center of the house and hence called 'nadumane'. |
 | | The caste barriers were forgotten among women and they would exchange secrets of their sexual life, the everyday sorrows of complicated relationships between men and women, and bodily aches and pains that never got cured and never could be shared with the men folk. |
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