Kathmandu, July 2 -- Some seek solitude, some the company of others, still others find a balance between the two. Yet, we all long for someone to go home to and share our smiles and sorrows.

Kalina and Diwas find that someone in each other - most often, it must be said, in sorrow. Their story begins in a school sickroom. Kalina lies curled up with stomach pain, and Diwas stumbles in, bruised and breathless from a fall off the school roof. What starts as curiosity about each other's pain turns into a friendship woven together with shared ache.

This opening scene of the play Sickroom on the stage of Katha Ghera is a precursor to how, through the years and separate storms, Kalina and Diwas keep finding their way back to each other. In pain...