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Kaushik Basu
CastSiddharth Chatterjee: Aged thirty-nine, charming, shock of unkempt hair, though the director should be prepared to trade hair volume for acting talent Melba Iyengar: Late twenties, pretty, stylishly dressed Professor Chaudhuri: Fifties, has a pompous style and speaks the Queen’s English, or nearly so June Chaudhuri: Late forties, looks pleasing Professor Srivastava, the Vice-Chancellor: Sixty-ish, grey hair; always in a dhoti and kurta Suresh Gupta: Thin, small build, speaks English with a desi accent. Like with a lot of thin people, it is difficult to tell his age. Could be in the early forties Mr Sharma: Mid-thirties, has the style of an unabashed entrepreneur, which he is Lacchu: Has the style of a street ruffian, which he may or may not be Madhu: Mr Sharma’s new secretary, vaudeville look Mr Ghosh: Avuncular, in his forties Mr Trehan: Delhi middle class, late forties Mrs Trehan: Delhi middle-class housewife, or homemaker, if you wish, mid-forties Gautam:Aged twelve or so Jennifer (Jenny): Sweet, hippie-ish American girl, early twenties Mr Bentley: Grumpy and arrogant foreign tourist Kavita Sharma: Early thirties, good-looking and, more importantly, has sex appeal. Sari-clad Ticket collector and miscellaneous others on the train and platform
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Kaushik
Basu is Professor of International Studies and Economics at Cornell University.
He believes this play to be his first attempt at ‘serious’ writing. Well-meaning
friends have told him that academic papers don’t count. The notes for
this play remained stashed in a drawer for years until he was “an invited
professor somewhere”. He declines to disclose where, for fear of not being
invited ever again. This is his first published creative work (2005)
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