Rheology

My mother studies the rheology of granular materials: how the natural landscape flows in fits and bursts. She also sings Rabindrasangeet: the songs of Bengali poet-composer Tagore. Most singers approach his songs delicately. But my mother’s voice is strident. Confrontational. She says, “gawla khule ga.” Sing with your throat open. When she’s teaching me a song, I ask her to translate lyric by lyric. Scattered throughout the house are yellow pads scrawled with equations. Sigmas and deltas. I’ve always been mystified by these other, intricate languages my mother speaks. RHEOLOGY is a performance memoir. A physics symposium. A Rabindrasangeet concert. A son studies his mother. She studies the strange behavior of sand. Together, they unravel the science—the story—of how things flow.

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