Mother Tongue Is Nectar Poem by Gajanan Mishra

Thank you, dear poet for kindling my thoughts on Vallathol

2) while other languages that we use are just foster mothers. Vallathol was proficient in Sanskrit, English, and Hindi, apart from his mother language Malayalam. He has translated Valmiki Ramayanam from Sanskrit to Malayalam, among others

Mother tongue is nectar, says the poet. Great Malayalam poet of yesteryears, Mahakavi Vallathol Narayana Menon wrote, "Mother language is the mother who gave us birth"..