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Immigration play Fistful Of Rupees asks how one can settle into a new city
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Fistful Of Rupees by Shiv Tandan reflects his own tussling with belonging.
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SINGAPORE – For a while after he moved from Singapore to Mumbai in 2015, award-winning playwright Shiv Tandan could get no replies to his requests to meet business associates there.
In at least three instances, he sat waiting at meetings where nobody showed up. It was only later that he learnt that this was because he did not understand the locals’ concept of time.
