Name Journeys

    Cards (24)

    • ''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.''