Peggy Mohan is an expert in her field of linguistics and through her book, she explained how languages in India, have multiple stories to tell us. The story of its movements and evolutions with time and also along the social ladder. The language is almost like a living being, shifting and changing constantly. Language, be it mine Bengali or yours Hindi or Urdu or Tamil, aren’t giant monoliths as rightly pointed out by the author. It got different faces, depending on one’s point of view.