Guneet Monga is one of the most successful Indian producers, who recently won an Oscar for her Short Subject Documentary, Period. End Of Sentence.
This trailblazing woman has battled personal losses at every turn and yet she continues to stand strong.
In an emotionally charged piece that she performed at Kommune’s Spoken Fest 2019, she pens a letter to her parents, talking about her life before and after they left.
She starts her piece by talking about how she and her parents had to leave their ancestral house in Delhi because of domestic violence at home.
And as they moved to Surajkund to start a separate life, the desire – to someday have their own home – kept them waiting for the ‘ideal’ life to being.
After years of struggles – that she looks back at fondly – came the time when finally her mother’s dream house was within reach.
But in an unexpectedly cruel turn of fate, she lost both her parents right before she got the house. The dream house was no longer a home.
Even as she built a life for herself in Mumbai, she still felt the ache to ‘have a home’, and fulfill the dream her parents could never see come alive.
Until finally, years later, she realized that the home she was looking across the globe for, was actually in the memories she’d built with her parents.
Watch the complete piece here:
Design Credits: Kumar Sonu