Maria, Just Maria

Following the death of her grandfather, Maria has stopped speaking — not because she can't, but because she doesn't want to. Now in a psychiatric hospital, as she begins the process of 'reconnecting with reality', Maria recalls her journey of being 'just Maria' — a girl born into a Syrian Christian family in Kerala, whose companions were a grandfather who took her along to wander around the village and its toddy shops, a great—aunt with dementia who challenged Maria's position as the younge...