Summary of shiva's Fire

Shiva’s Fire is a book on a girl named Parvati who was born on the day of the Maharaja’s birthday. Following that day the first cyclone ever seen in her home town of Nandipuram, many adults and children had died following that day and the days to come.
Shiva is the Hindu god of destruction and re-creation, also known as the lord of dance. Parvati was born with the gift of dance. Even in the womb she had always thumped her mothers’ sides in a slow rhythm like music.
Her parents, Meenakshi and Sundar, were farmers like the rest of the town. Meeakshi is a woman who worked in the fields and cooked for her family. She was loved by her neighbors before Parvati was born. When she was born the Yuvaraja, the son and heir to the Raja, was born also. Later in the day a cyclone had started and an illness had fallen over the town. Meenakshi and Parvati were blamed for it all. Sundar was a royal elephant keeper. He took care of the elephant, which always carries the Raja and Yuvaraja. On the birthday of the Maharaja and the birth of his daughter and the first cyclone, one of the elephants started freaking out during the cyclone. In attempt to calm it, Sundar, got caught in a stampede.
Meenakshi’s brother in law, Sathya, offers them a home with his wife, whom they call Auntie, and their children. She too had just given birth that week. When Auntie had taken Parvati into her arms with one deep look into each others eyes, Auntie could only say “Oh!” and with that she blamed Parvati for the cyclone.
Monsoons later Parvati grows up helping her mom. All the adults believe also that Parvati was to blame of the cyclone and the loss of many. She had monkeys as friends and when she was just a toddler she’d get up and raise her leg to stand on one foot. She would be teased by all the children when she would fall and just get back up and try again.
When Parvati believes she can dance like the lord Shiva, she decides to wait till her mother and the other moms leave the fire pit and she jumps in, and music raise and she’s engulfed into music and dance. When her mother pulled he rout and checked her she didn’t come out with any markings. Her mother makes her to never dance again and just live a life of a normal child. Well Parvati does, though sooner or later words gets around and a dance guru named, Guru Pazhayanur Muthu Kumara Pillai. He wanted Parvati to become a devadasi, a servant of the gods. Of course Parvati ends up leaving to Madras to live in the gurukalam.
While she’s there Parvati learns to exercise her dance moves, read. Write, and speak in Tamil, and meditate. She gains a Friend named Nalini, but Nalini doesn’t want the life of a devadasi. She ends up meeting a man in the bazaar and he turns out to be a bandit that robs from the rich to give to the poor. She runs away with him and leaves Parvati alone. She lives in the gurukalam for the next year and when it comes to the showcase she is awarded a full sari and is to be taught how to dance. Soon it’s close to the Maharajas birthday and asked the Guru for their best dancer. When Parvati is picked to go there she visits her family for a week then meets the Yuvaraja. At first she is scared to secretly meet him. Then she starts to fall for him. She learns that he wants to study to be a doctor instead of inheriting a farm land. He, too, had fallen for her and asked her to run away with him to America. In the end he tells her to dance like the Lord Shiva. She does just that at the festival for the birthday of the Maharaja. And as she dances a voice comes to her and says, “This is it. You are the magic of possibilities.” And she knew it was the voice of Lord Shiva.

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