A Different History by Sujata Bhatt - Introduction
1. Deals with issues of globalization and westernization
2. Identity Crisis due to the two languages that we learn - Our own mother tongue and English
3. She is known as a poet of many cultures
4. According to her - ‘Poetry enriches her being’
5. Writing poems inspired by even newspaper articles
6. Enjoys reading her poems aloud to make the necessary corrections
7. It is always lucky to listen to the poet herself reading the poem.
8. When you listen to the poem performed, you get more meanings and you understand the tone of the poem.
9. Choice of English - English became her language - In some poems, she has mixed Gujarati and English.
10. Her poems reflect the cultures that she has experienced in her life. Her travels to the US and back to India. She has lived in Germany, Italy, UK, US and even Latin America.
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