'If audiences are crying, I've done my job': closing the stories of a generation of British south Asians
Actors Meera Syal and Shobna Gulati, with playwright Tanika Gupta, explain how their National Theatre production springs from the anguish of losing their mothers Meera Syal and Tanika Gupta's friendship clearly runs deep. They nod in recognition to each other's anecdotes and speak about being part of the Asian Women Writers' Collective in the 1990s, when it was a far smaller world for British south Asian writers and …