Question

What is meant by microscpic dot?

Answer 1

microscopic dot means that the village-Kritam was very small A small Tamil village named ‘Kritam’, ‘probably the tiniest of the seven hundred thousand villages dotting the map of India’ is ‘indicated in the district survey map by a microscopic dot’. So, the small dot that is hardly visible in open eyes is the mark of a village on the map. Kritam is actually an imaginary village created by the author. The very name means ‘coronet’ or ‘crown’ in Tamil.
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