How Can I Talk If My Lips Don't Move? by Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay

Author:Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Published: 2011-03-14T04:00:00+00:00

As I mentioned earlier, I was listening to Mother singing me a song when I realized that her voice was generated when her lips moved. All moving lips are parts of faces, as unique as their voices. My speech therapist, Deepa, had shown me the diagram of vocal cords, explaining to me how when they vibrate, we can hear our voices, as we ritualistically tried to vocalize the sounds, “a-a-a — a” and “o-o-o-o — o,” during therapy sessions. The diagram of the vocal cords was flesh pink and white.

As I continued my interview with Mr. Rao, I could imagine his vocal cords vibrate as he asked me all those questions and as I wrote down all my answers for him. I could imagine the colors of grass green and leaf green floating around, slowly being replaced by the white and flesh pink of his vocal cords. I could see the page on which I wrote turn slowly to a flesh pink, while Mr. Rao spoke aloud. I was in the midst of all those colors, holding on to my pencil, lest it get lost in the viscous stretch of white and flesh pink, which had the power to dissolve the green. Mr. Rao’s identification was the sound of his voice, vibrating in a pool of flesh pink and white, fading out of grass green and leaf green. The interview was complete, and it was added to the story as the concluding part of that which began in grass green and leaf green. When I retrieved it for this page, my words had the same essence of those greens, with the smell of grass and leaves.

Would I recognize Mr. Rao again, if he stood in front of me at some point in my life? I might not recognize him by his face, but I would surely recognize him if I heard his voice. Maybe a new color would be added to the pink and white when I met him next. Maybe a new essence would be added to those colors. Who knows what would happen if I met him again to continue that story?

Without those stories, recognizing and recalling a person or a situation is very difficult.

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