Five Grains of Sugar is an award winning play written by Manav Kaul. It tells the tale of Rajkumar, an `ordinary man` from an `ordinary town` living an `ordinary life`. With a mother who loves bloody and gory films, an uncle who is a failed poet , an old Gandhian friend who constantly recreates his single meeting with the Mahatma, a class mate who is a style guru and an invisible long distance friend being the only characters that pepper his life. He goes through his everyday life with idyllic charm and is surrounded by characters who are as irrepressible. Rajkumar`s is a universal journey filled with delightful events and speckled with life-changing experiences. The play looks at the invariable presence of art in the banality that is life, and the choices we make when pushed into a corner.