 Contemporary India is an oddity, a strange country bereft of playwrights. Despite extraordinary diversity, colour, complexity and contradictions in our daily life and the strangest of stories popping out at us from every nook and corner, we suddenly seem denuded of storytellers with narrative skills.

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