Ranjit Hoskote said of her poetry, "Her language drew as much on English as it did on Hindi and Malayalam – I always heard, in her poems, patterns of breath that seemed to come from sources in Gangetic India, where she spent part of her childhood, and her ancestral Malabar."
Ranjit Hoskote noted that the poet's linguistic style incorporated elements from both English and Indian languages such as Hindi and Malayalam. In her poetry, he frequently detected rhythms associated with Gangetic India and her ancestral Malabar region.