Hindustani
Wherever Sara Suleri writes Urdu, substitute Hindustani (rather than 'Hindi')… and she could be writing about all of us who claim Hindi as our mother tongue, but think/dream/write in English…
Speaking two languages may seem a relative affluence, but more often it entails the problems of maintaining a second establishment even though your body can be in only one place at a time. When I return to Urdu I feel shocked at my own neglect of a place so intimate to me: like relearning the proportions of a once familiar room, it takes me by surprise to recollect that I need not feel grief, I can eat grief; that I need not bury my mother but instead can offer her into the earth, for I am in Urdu now…
posted by Anand at 8:47 AM
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Having been trilingual all my life, I don't think I necessarily see the constant migrant between several languages as a problem. Almost all my friends are polyglots, and certainly most grew up at least bilingual. I see multi-lingual fluency as an aid to a more expansive understanding, to know the tentativeness of meanings within a specific context. With languages more is always merrier.
tm,
i agree with you, and envy you. i agree with you that the more languages the merrier, i envy you, becuase being haltingly bilingual, i'm not polyglot enough for my polyphonous country...
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