The Language Inheritance: How Second-Generation South Asian Americans Are Claiming a Poetic Tradition Across a Generational Silence
For many second and third-generation South Asian Americans, Shayari represents a heritage that arrived incomplete — transmitted in fragments through a parent's hummed verse or a grandparent's fading memory. A growing number of diaspora writers are now returning to the form deliberately, treating it not as a nostalgic exercise but as an act of ancestral recovery and self-definition.