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Question
List the characters in the play.
Human characters
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Solution
Human characters:
- Newspaper boy
- Milkman
- Hawker
- School-bus driver
- Dr. Sawant Peacock
- Mrs. Patel- a housewife
- Mr. Desai - a businessman
- Mayor of the town
- Mrs. Joshi - a housewife
- Madhu & Nidhi Mrs. Joshi's daughters. (school going girls)
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