Viramma: Life of an Untouchable - Paperbackby Jean Luc Racine (Author), Josiane Racine (Author), John L. Varriano (Author) Viramma tells her fascinating life story with the unsentimentality, humor and dramatic sense of a born storyteller: her carefree childhood; her marriage before puberty; giving birth to twelve children 'very gently, like stroking a rose'; adult life as an agricultural worker 'condemned to bake in the sun'; tales of gods and malign forces, like Irsi Katteri 'the foetus