Calcutta Kosher

(Paperback, Illustrated edition)

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In a crumbling Calcutta home, two sisters are forced to come to terms with their mothers secret history. In this funny and moving play, award-winning writer Shelley Silas examines how family and culture, time and distance, influence our sense of who we are. Set in the Indian Jewish community, it explores conflicts between old and new, east and west, tradition and truth.If the past is another country, where is home Calcutta Kosher was produced by the Kali Theatre Company and toured the UK in February and March 2004.

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Shelley was born in Calcutta and moved to London with her family when she was a child. She was a winner in the ICA's New Blood fiction competition (1996) with her short story Via Calcutta, published in the on-line anthology Endangered Species.