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Different History Sujata Bhatt
Different History Sujata Bhatt
‘A Different History’ is in two linked parts: lines 1-18, then lines 19-29. In the first part of the
poem, she concentrates on respect for education and learning. She claims that in Indian
religion every Object is sacred. There is God in trees. You should treat your books as the
goddess of knowledge.
The second part of the poem returns to the idea of a foreign language; all languages, it says,
have once been the language of an invader or an oppressor, but despite this there always
comes a time when younger and newer generations not only speak the oppressor’s
language but they actually come to love it.