Synopsis In Old Stone Mansion, a play widely staged in the original Marathi and in several other Indian languages, Mahesh Elkunchwar takes a close look at one of those old families still struggling against time in some small town or village, trying desperately to hold on to the tenuous bonds that once kept such a family together, even as the big city in the distance lured it and the inevitable individual yearnings pulled the members of the family apart—a phenomenon so common in India today. Elkunchwar sees history in action, and steers clear of the sentimental, to produce a document of social change, striking in its authenticity.