Sujata Bhatt – “Search for my tongue”

For the poet Sujata Bhatt language seems to be synonymous with the tongue, the physical act of speaking.

The poet's Gujarati roots and Indian childhood are two important elements which seem to comprise the deep layers of her identity. English has become her primary language and the language she writes in.

She discovers a cause of unity which is denied to humans (except for the very young) in the non-verbal world of animals and plants.

Sujata Bhatt’s composition “Search regarding The Tongue” is around what it is like to reside in a foreign state, experiencing disconnection from your ethnic backdrop. The poet feels at the beginning she has lost her mother tongue because she is living abroad.

The composition is additionally concerning the experience of colonialism and emigration.

The shed dialect sometimes appears to be representative of the losing of the ethnic heritage, connected with ideals and options for contemplating. The truth that Bhatt is of South Asian origin may perhaps declare that she is speaking about how the English colonised Asia, impacting laws and regulations and dialect. The composition is exploratory; a form of thinking. Towards the end she changes her mind. She feels the mother tongues still continues to exist in the subconscious.