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Synopsis: This is a play that attempts to explore the violence surrounding Partition and its continuing echoes through the decades.

This Play Is: unpublished

Production History: Currently in development with support from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the September 11 Fund.

Synopsis: When Anu and Hari married, they told each other they’d be the Sid and Nancy of Indian couples. No rules, no roads, no borders. Four years later, it’s his birthday. Dinner is Wendy’s takeout. She buys the sex toys, he gets the pot. For two years they’ve been trying to have a baby. The [...]

Synopsis: Sangeet is a play about London in the 1980s. Thatcher is in power, everyone is drunk, and Harp wants to marry Vicki. The problem: both their fathers seriously don’t like the idea. His is an ex-strongman from India, hers is a nurse’s aide distinctly lacking any bedside manners.
Setting: London
Time Period: 1980s
Cast Size: 4
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Synopsis: When Nina, a young Indian-American woman accepts a journalist’s offer of a trip to India, she finds herself confronted with lies she has lived with for years.
Alex, 40, is unmarried, a journalist, and has never written a true word in his life. When an editor assigns him a story about India, he picks up [...]