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On Being with Krista Tippett
A short play about a sick child confined to his room, longing for freedom and connection with the outside world, symbolized by the arrival of a letter.
There's a little tiny book a small play called the post office in which this is best represented.
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Episode: [Unedited] Anita Desai with Krista Tippett
A short play about a sick child confined to his room, longing for freedom and connection with the outside world, symbolized by the arrival of a letter.
There's a little tiny book a small play called the post office in which this is best represented.
It's about this child, Amul who is very ill and his doctor has refused to allow him out of his room. He's confined to his bed in his room.
And then one day he sees the raja's post office coming up overnight outside has been to climb a golden flag. And the watchman has yors him that the raja himself would soon be sending him a letter and almost longing for that vast and beautiful earth becomes intensified into his longing for that letter. It arrives and he's read.