Audio Essay: Learning to Speak Again

“I have lived with my grandmother for most of my life and she taught me the Indian language Bengali. Recently she had a stroke, causing her to move into a nursing home and have a lot of trouble speaking. This piece is about voice and my grandmother losing her ability to speak, but also my relationship to the Bengali language and the impact that my grandmother has had on my language ability. Through the audio essay form I hoped to illustrate the changing of my grandmother's voice coinciding with changes in my own language ability.”