Learning French with non-traditional methods

How I did it, and how you can do it too When I moved to Brussels, Belgium in 2018 I didn’t know any French. It took me two months to become fluent in French with non-traditional methods. That’s the story for how I did it, and of how you can do it as well. In…

School in India

Khelghar, at Athavle Corner. When I walked into the small, dirty and only room of Kelghar, at Athavle Corner, Pune I had one thought in my mind: “This is not a school”. I had to wait until the end of the visit to realize how wrong—or maybe right—I was. Started by the Non Governmental Organization…

Doing Sociology in English in India: Towards a new Tower of Babel?

Since I was a child, the Tower of Babel has been my favorite story from the Genesis. When I first arrived in India I realized how the country resembles a bewitching Babel, embodying a maze-like, per se linguistic microcosm. Its 1.3 billion inhabitants, who speak more than 19,500 different languages and dialects, would be unable…