Jeet Thayyil (1959 - ) is a performance poet, journalist, writer, editor, and guitarist who has published four collections of poetry and fiction. He has won many awards including DSC (Distinguished Service Cross) prize for South Asian Literature and Sahitya Academy award for English literature. ‘Malayalam’s Ghazal’ is a poem taken from Jeet’s ‘Collected Poems’. The poem depicts what is lost in translation. As every language has its own identity and depth, the poet asks the readers to open the windows to the fresh air of their mother tongue. The word ‘Malayalam,’ a palindrome is repeated at the end of all couplets in the poem. That adds beauty to this poem.