"“Mother Tongue” by Pooja Joshi is bittersweet and heartbreaking look at colonialism and the loss of culture, but the story’s painful aspects are tempered by hope. The personification of a dying woman’s mother tongue is drawn to her hospital room as she takes her last breaths. Her son struggles to speak to her in her language, but he has forgotten most of it. English shows up to taunt the mother tongue, but after the old woman dies, her granddaughter decides she wants to learn her grandmother’s language, bringing her mother tongue back again."
https://locusmag.com/review/augur-review-by-a-c-wise-2/