In Search of Language X

In Search of Language X

Bio

Peggy Mohan was born in Trinidad, West Indies. She studied linguistics at the University of the West Indies, and completed her PhD in linguistics from the University of Michigan in 1978. She has taught linguistics at Howard University, Washington D.C., Jawaharlal Nehru University and Ashoka University, and mass communications at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. She is the author of Wanderers, Kings, Merchants, (Penguin Random House 2021) which won the Mathrubhumi Book of the Year Award. Her latest book is Father Tongue, Motherland (Penguin Random House 2025). She lives in New Delhi.