Question

Summary of the poem mother tongue by padma sachdeva

Answer 1

In the poem “Mother Tongue,” Padma Sachdev tries to bring out the issues of language destruction.

Old languages like Dogri(in this poem) are getting destroyed due to the evolution of language and old scripts wearing out.

She bewails by way of explaining with the example of a reed plant that how old scripts are replaced with new ones.

Padma Sachdev personifies Dogri as Shahni, and she says that she doesn’t work for the Shah rather she works for her mother tongue Dogri.

She bemoans the loss of the Sharade script of Dogri language and indicates the loss of other scripts of old languages which lead to loss of age-old languages.