The Sayings That Stay Long After the Conversation Ends
Every family has a language.
Some families pass down recipes. Some pass down traditions. Mine passed down muhavare — short sayings that quietly became the values by which I learned to live.
For years, I searched for a place to call home. It took me much longer to realize that home wasn't something I needed to find. It was something my parents had been building inside me all along.
That's why I write. I hope my books inspire families to tell more stories, ask more questions, preserve more traditions, and pass along the words that quietly shape who we become. Because every family has a language worth remembering.
Why I decided to write this book
During one of the hardest seasons of my life, I found myself returning to the sayings my parents had repeated throughout my childhood. I realized they weren't simply expressions — they were the philosophy by which I had unknowingly lived my entire life. Writing The Language of Home became my way of honoring that inheritance, and inviting others to rediscover their own.
About Ekta Gulati
Ekta Gulati is a writer and storyteller born in Zambia of Indian descent, who has lived and worked across Germany and the United States — and, in her career, as a product executive. Questions of identity, belonging, and home have followed her across three continents, shaping everything she has written.
The Language of Home is her debut book, and her answer to a question she has been living since she was sixteen:
Where do the words our parents give us end, and where do we begin?
— Ekta Gulati
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Children hear wisdom. Adults understand it. Parents pass it on.