Angela Therese Mathew

On my love for the whimsical bossa nova of the Barfi! soundtrack and how exploring new Hindi music has been the most strange of constants through different majors, friendships, clubs and seasons in my life at Notre Dame.

For some reason, whenever anyone in the U.S. remarks on my fluency in English, I seethe. Growing up in India, I internalized an obsession with “proper” English due to the social currency that English represents. In India, many well-paying corporate jobs are simply not available to those who don’t speak English fluently. Thus, being educated in English is a means of upward social mobility.