What do birdwatchers and poets share in common? That's a strange question, perhaps. But in 1965, Nissim Ezekiel wrote otherwise. "To force the pace and never to be still Is not the way of those who study birds..."

"Observation," theatre director Sunil Shanbag is quick to answer the question. It is 2018, and the co-founder of Tamaasha still draws from Ezekiel's allegory. In Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher, Ezekiel explores how elusive words can be. Trying to write without observation, is a dead end and Shanbag's contemporary performance piece, Blank Page, aims to take the act of creativity a step further.