sujatha mathai

He told me that it was based on a true story he heard me tell when I lived in Bangalore. I told him we had visited a farm in York once. As we were being taken round, I noticed an unusually large pig being pulled and pushed into a van. He resisted with all his might. They just couldn’t pull him in. Finally, the lady of the farm, a strong, stocky looking woman, said “I’ll try!” She went into the van and called him by his pet name. He followed her in like a small child responding to a mother. I could never forget that act of betrayal. Ramchander based his story on the story of the pig, which I had told him years before.