Don’t write in English, they said, English is not your mother tongue… …The language I speak Becomes mine, its distortions, its queerness All mine, mine alone, it is half English, half Indian, funny perhaps, but it is honest, It is as human as I am human… …It voices my joys, my longings my Hopes…

1. Identify the textual genre

A) INFORMATIVE TEXT

B) CARTOON

C) LYRICS

D) POEM