‘The Mappila Verses’: Where do we go if our names are not in the list?
‘Where do coconut trees go when their roots are declared illegal?’ Anonymous 16th-century Portuguese illustration from Códice Casanatense, depicting Kerala Muslims | Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome / Wikimedia Commons
Following the Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish’s
Write me down, I am an Arab, Ajmal Khan wrote “Write me down, I am an Indian” in the wake of the CAA-NRC protests. It was translated into Hindi by lyricist Varun Grover, and into many other regional languages.
The Mappila Verses is Khan’s new collection of poems.
Portrait of a Bastard