Mother earth and mother tongue | Art & Culture
January 10, 2021 Even after independence, ‘educated’ citizens have remained ashamed of their first language – and tend to reduce it to conversing with servants. We, in a physiological sense, are the extensions of our mothers. Bodies once part of another flesh; so, wherever we go, grow, we contain our mothers within us. We especially carry one part of our mother, her tongue: the first language we learn to speak. Later on, for various reasons, many of us forget our origins and neglect our mother tongue. People have varying attitudes towards their mother tongues. In a colonial society it ...
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