The International Mother Language Day falls in Feb. My blogger-friends, Manali Desai and Sukaina Majeed, have chosen a theme related to IMLD for their Feb’s blog hop. I thought it’s a good opportunity to write about my mother language, Malayalam, which has quite a fascinating and potentially controversial history. The history of Malayalam is linked with that of Tamil, of the Brahmin migration from North India to the South, and the subsequent influence of Sanskrit. The or...