The language of ehsas: a collection on identity, faith, and belonging

Ehsas is an Urdu word rooted in feeling, sensitivity, and awareness - a language spoken not only through words, but through how we remember, believe, and belong. The Language of Ehsas is a debut poetry collection that moves through the intimate and the political landscapes of South Asian life. Written between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-five, these poems trace migration and memory, womanhood and faith, nationhood and becoming - lingering in the spaces between what is inherited and what is chosen. Moving between history and the everyday, the poems in this collection live in the in-between: where silence speaks, faith questions itself, and identity is shaped as much by loss as by love. This book is for readers who believe that feelings is a form of knowledge, that memory carries its own resistance, and that listening can be as powerful as speaking.