India, Oct. 3 -- There is an idea that sits beneath The Pomegranate Collective's latest production, How does your garden grow? The play does not tell one story about one question. Instead, eight interconnected stories and eight characters keep returning to a larger pursuit, allowing each conversation to take the inquiry somewhere new.

The question of why people have children and why they want to have children is one of the places that inquiry begins, but it does not end there. Questions of choice sit at its heart too: What prompts us to make a choice? Do we really want what we choose?

"With each story, the inquiry is progressing. The inquiry about purpose," says Pallavi Verma, who directs the production.

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