Zabaan
Some things I can only express In a language I have forgotten.
Half my mind slips from the hand, Like a fleeting fistful of sand.
South of Fort St. George by the sea, Adyar erodes absentee memory.
A linguistic legacy of Macaulay's colony, Still, English halts Hindu/Hindi hegemony.
How, then, did I forget Tamil, or Telugu, Or, mainly, meri pehli zabaan, Urdu?
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