The plot then is mostly about how he gets enveloped in the history and gives it an outlet through his writing. A retired white collar worker and a resident of Mumbai, Aravindan heeds the call of his home town and returns for a short visit. Musiris of present day is situated close to the town of Chennamangalam which happens to be the home town of the protagonist, Aravindan. Decades later an archaeological dig turns up artifacts that establish the relation of trade that existed all those years ago. With the fading of the Romans from the center stage, Musiris also lost its glory and slowly dropped off the map. Musiris was a port in Cochin which served as a significant point on the navigation map for the Romans when the trade for black pepper was at its peak. The second birth of a trading post named Musiris is what it all comes down to. The word Marupiravi in my understanding translates to the other birth. Marupiravi is the story of how the history of a town in Cochin washes over the life of one man Aravindan. Very few among us embrace that history and welcome it into the humdrum of our daily routine. What do we talk about when we talk about history ? The most obvious things jump to my mind : culture, language, government, agriculture.things that your history lessons in school taught you in short ! Think of the landscape where you live, how would your town have been a millenium ago ? Not many of us think about it and to the les industrious of us who do, the answers prove elusive.
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