Your Tongue Is Still Yours

2019 WINNER OF THE BODLEY HEAD | FINANCIAL TIMES ESSAY PRIZE ' Surkh gulaaban day mausam vich, Phulaan de rang kaalay. (In the season of red roses, These flowers are turning black.)' Your Tongue Is Still Yours is a poetic meditation on language, regional cultures and how identity exists in the many layers between the two. Punjabi. Urdu. English. Arabic. Balti. Shina. Khowar. Wakhi. Dur e Aziz Amna goes back to Pakistan, traversing its different regions before returning to New York, considering h