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By Iqra Khan
“there’s power / in obtaining / obedience / of a language / that was once / command.”
Iqra Khan is a bilingual poet, activist, and accidental law graduate from India. Her poems have appeared in Baltimore Review, The Bombay Review and Feminist Dissent, University of Warwick. Her articles have appeared in Scroll and The Wire. Her writing is centred around the experiences of the brown body, her conflicted relationship with the English language, the marginalized aspirations of her community and the nostalgia that lingers over the city of Delhi.