Editor’s note – This narrative is from a European student who visited India to learn Hindi. The narrative revolves around the author’s general educational experience in a government school for which they had received scholarship to attend.
Author’s note – I am a European, a “professional student” (as a friend once described my mindset), been studying languages for the last decade, even teaching for a few years. Here, in this piece I describe my experience in an Indian government school where I was supposed to learn Hindi.