Aditi Rao is a PhD candidate in classics and a joint degree candidate in the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities at Princeton, where she works on the transhistorical project of “Aryanism,” from Hellenistic antiquity to British modernity. She lives, and organizes, in Philadelphia.
Aditi Rao
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Against Babel: Or, How to Talk to Strangers
Allegedly, some 45% of languages descend from one, ancient ”Proto-Indo-European“ tongue. But why focus on a hypothetical lost language, when we can work instead to hear one another today?
