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''Like
Rama
I have felt the
wilderness''
''but I have not been
blessed''
''with a
companion
as
sweet
as she,''
''Sita
;
loyal
,
pure
and
true
of heart.''
''Like her I have been
chastened''
''through trial by
fire. Sita
and
I
,''
''spiritual
sari-sisters
entwined''
''in an
infinite silk
that would
swathe''
''Draupadi's
blush. My
name''
''a
journey
between
rough
and
smooth
,''
''an
interlacing
of
banyan
leaves with
sugar''
''cane.
Woven
tapestries
of
journeys
;''
''travelling
from
South''
'''to
North
, where the
Punjabi
in my
mouth''
''became
dislodged
as
milk
teeth
fell''
''and
hit infertile
English
soil.''
''My
mouth
toiled to
accommodate''
''the
rough
musicality of
Mancunian
vowels''
''and my
name
became a
stumble''
''that filled
English
mouths''
''with a
discordant
rhyme, an
exotic''
''rhythm
dulled, my
voice
a
mystery''
''in the
Anglo echo
chamber-''
''void of
history
and
memory.''