What could a Chennai based pianist who teaches music to Indian schoolchildren using African and Latin American samba rhythms, a veteran theatre actor whose choice of music when serenading borrows from the melodramatic musical theatre of Bombay in the colonial era, an enchanting poet and translator who proffers Bengali and Welsh words in equal abandon, and a twinkle-eyed Marathi theatre actor who believes that stories only happen to children when they are left alone, possibly have in common?