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."
According to Ranjit Hoskote, the poet's language was equally influenced by English, Hindi, and Malayalam. In her work, he often heard rhythmic patterns reminiscent of Gangetic India, where she spent some of her youth, and her roots in Malabar.