‘The Mappila Verses’: Where do we go if our names are not in the list? ‘Where do coconut trees go when their roots are declared illegal?’ Anonymous 16th-century Portuguese illustration from Códice Casanatense, depicting Kerala Muslims | Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome / Wikimedia Commons Following the Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish’s Write me down, I am an Arab, Ajmal Khan wrote “Write me down, I am an Indian” in the wake of the CAA-NRC protests. It was translated into Hindi by lyricist Varun Grover, and into many other regional languages. The Mappila Verses is Khan’s new collection of poems. Portrait of a Bastard