FAMAGUSTA (Shortlisted for the Sultan Padamsee Playwriting Award, 2020)
This one-act play is set in the living room of the Siddiquis in Lahore circa 2000, when they have a visitor—a retired Colonel from India. A new friendship flourishes that evening with shared experiences at Partition and in the army. But as the night progresses, a deeper reason is revealed to actually bring them together—one that could threaten their newfound friendship forever.
A constitutional lawyer and scholar holds forth on the Constitution and the idea of India, at a point in time when both are in the throes of being reinvented beyond recognition.
Does the Constitution represent an ethos of the people of India that is equitable, emancipatory and evolving? Is it a sturdy foundation for the socio-political bastion of a nation to imagine itself upon? Has it yielded sufficient returns to justify an absolute faith in constit