5/10/2004 » Literature

Prageeta Sharma skewers the Anglicists in her hypnotic metronomic:

Family

There are silverfish bugs across the window sill
in the white house. He says: my name is Jug Dish,
and you are pointing west when you say dish–desh
and you are taking a stab when you say jug–Jag.
However, the name is Indian. Point west, take a stab...

Her second poetry collection, The Opening Question, came out last month.