Olafactory memories have the power to exhume long-forgotten episodes from the recesses of the mind. When Ghatkopar-based Rangaai Theatre Company founder Tushar Dalvi thinks of roasted potatoes, he is transported to the day he read Hindi literary legend Munshi Premchand's Kafan in high school. The memories of the heart-wrenching story of destitution, where two famished men choose to protect their booty of stolen potatoes over saving a woman in labour, come flooding back to him every time the otherwise tantalising smell fills the air.

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