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Description: A broken-hearted granddaughter's search for understanding.nnBy Neena Pathak for HearSay International Audio Arts Festival (2019)nnAaji (Grandma) is in her 90s, proficient in English but more comfortable in Marathi, and hard-of-hearing. Mithu is in her 30s, okay at Marathi (but speaks in a stilted, error-filled, and somewhat childlike way common to many second-generation immigrants), and heartbroken. The piece explores how bearing witness to each other in a family context can be hard and fraught,
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