Allies In Aging, Or Kindness To The Body, Or Loveliness In Old Age
As my parents grew older, they became rather fond of small scissors. Both of them at various times asked me to get some from the market, or the US. I wondered why.
New York as the Underworld
I don’t know what I was thinking when I said to Payson, “Yes! Let’s go to New York in December!” I commend my adventurousness and youthful folly, I mean it, because I was getting quite sedentary in my ways, unwilling to travel.
Zanana
ZANANA was done as a student production, directed by Tripurari Sharma, at the National School of Drama in 1980. The play won the first prize in the one act category in Sultan Padamsee Playwriting in English Award in 1977.
The Curlew’s Cry
KAAMIYA, produced by ANK, Mumbai, translated and directed by Padamshree Ram Gopal Bajaj, ex-director of the National School of Drama, premiered at the NCPA, Mumbai, on May 4, 2014.
Clytemnestra
KAAMIYA, produced by ANK, Mumbai, translated and directed by Padamshree Ram Gopal Bajaj, ex-director of the National School of Drama, premiered at the NCPA, Mumbai, on May 4, 2014.
The Importance of Imagination: How my Imaginary Friends Saved my Life
Imagination — the power to form and animate images not accessible to…
Kepler Dreams
KEPLER DREAMS: received a staged reading at The Gas Lamp Quarter Theatre in San Diego, USA, in 1990, directed by Mark Hofflund.
Hamlet’s Father
HAMLET’S FATHER: received a staged reading at the Marin Shakespeare Festival, Marin, USA, in 2002, directed by Rob Clare.
The Prison of Doubt
In one of Rumi’s stories, Mark, whose friend Joseph has been ‘killed” by his…
Owning Our Power: Walt Whitman’s Sister in Several Suites
I was very pleased when my last essay on my friend and muse, Agha Shahid Ali, Phoenix…
