Mounika Bolisetty

Decoding the multilingual kid.

“Tata meeru anta ghan ghan chikhsaru. Translating to, Grandpa, you have messed it all up,\ my three-year-old said, and my father looked at me perplexed. \What is ghan ghan?”Having a Maharashtrian father and an Andhrite mother, Blend of the two languages was a daily norm for her. By the age of 2 or so she was very effortlessly switching between the two languages and translating phrases to the two s...

Love language!

On my way back from work on a rainy day, I tuned into a podcast by Jay Shetty. He was talking about how we all have different love languages, in which we either express our love or want to be loved. This caught my attention and suddenly the honking of horns, the sweeping sound of the windscreen wiper all went mute. Shetty went on, the five love languages are words of affirmation, acts of service, ...

Mounika Bolisetty