Voices in the Waiting Room

<b>Five doctors. One hospital. A cacophony orchestrated by forced silence ruptured memories and the quiet fight to belong.</b><br><br>When Dr Silva receives a bangle it threatens to unravel the life she has so carefully constructed.Around her four colleagues carry burdens of their own. <br><br>There is Dr Ankit who fled a broken system in India and is now struggling to find a sense of homein a country that sees him as a stranger; Dr Pooja poised on the outside but aching beneath thesurface; Dr Shashi brilliant yet adrift in the ubiquity of human connections; and Dr Jindal a pillarof the diaspora undone by a grief too vast to articulate. <br><br>In the antiseptic corridors of a hospital in the United States these voices intersect and intertwinebound together by the universal need to be seen understood and remembered. <br><br><i>Voices in the Waiting Room</i> is a powerful multi-perspective debut by Mayank Gupta about identity displacement and the fragile bonds that tether us to one another. As each voice rises falters and finally finds its place Gupta crafts a chorus that is both intimate and resonant.