India, Oct. 19 -- The play is the thing and it reaches the heart when a granddaughter enacts Ek Lamha Zindagi- A Love Story 1938-1979 as she plays Razia Sajjad Zaheer, life partner of freedom fighter and a communist revolutionary, with finesse. The performance of this one-woman play enacted at the Khushwant Singh Lit Fest warmed the hearts in the cold October.

The curtain rises on Razia recalling the wedding pictures that were sent from the girl's home to the boy's home to take forward the matchmaking. Perhaps this happened only in the more progressive families. This writer is reminded of her mother born in the then orthodox Rawalpindi, who got married to her England-returned bureaucrat father in British service some 17 years senior to h...