In January last year, life started handing lemons to the everyman protagonist in a play that will be staged online this weekend, called Miah-Boy Diaries.
He first lost his job with an advertising agency. Then, even as he was trying to pick up the pieces, the pandemic dealt a further blow to his professional pursuits.

Suddenly, he found himself in isolation, with all the time in the world to come to grips with the existential crisis he was facing. Someone advised him to keep a diary to help gain some succour in this difficult period. So, he did. And in the meantime, he also found the notebooks that his great-grandfather would keep in the 1920s and ’30s. It documented what the social milieu of the Muslim man’s life was like back then, which gave our protagonist a perspective of his own identity, thus helping him chart a new direction. That journey he embarks on — and the eventual resolution he reaches — completes the narrative that this solo act builds.