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A different history
Bhatt is a product of two cultures. She sees herself split between culture and language.. Conflicted with who she is. She wants to rewrite history. She reflects herself on her identity. She is not fully Indian not fully English.
What happened to the people who lost their land and freedoms. She wants to look at this story.
She begins the story Pan of

She begins the story Great Pan is

In Hindouism many Gods vs Christianity. They roam freely.. The gods can do what they like. The hindu gods are given animal forms so the people can understand
Bhatt talks about the sins, she mentions language all the way through. What books do and what books are capable are doing. Slaming books on the table are horrible. Words have the abilty to change. Books can make things change. Books have scared ways to change society.
She refers to the second person you like she is addressing the person like instruction like her parents are talking to her.
The Indians see the interconteiveness of everything. Nothing is separate. The book is not separate from the tree. Respect must be paid to a book.

Stanza break and indittion….We need to look at line breaks.
A voice of instruction… a voice of aggression
Opressor is the English.. The colionial English who came into India and plundered the riches. The oppressor took advantage of the wealth. If the language of itself is opressored by the English Colional Opressor. Like the Oppressor stold the Indian Culture.
In concultion…..Language has great beauty and power but also can be a force of destrructiona nd power. Language can be beautiful but it also can lead people to murder. Final sentence of how does this happen… how do the unborn grandchrilren love the new language…. Is it the language of the Bristish Opressor…

Very aggressive impressions……
How did we allow this to happen, after all of this how did we allow this to happen f The poem is about the power of words.. thez form stories and the stories form history.. She tries to reclaim some of

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