Two Princeton Students Are Helping Hundreds Of Indians Learn English For Free Using Mobile Phones
by The Daily Eye Team June 27 2016, 10:23 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 34 secsA basic mobile phone can become a tool of learning, thanks to Vaasvi Goyal and Kasturi Shah’s free English teaching service:
Hello, Seekho
An eight-year-old in West Delhi eagerly waits for her auto-driver father to get home so she can start her daily English lessons.
In Mumbai, a school-dropout squeezes in his English lessons between waiting tables at a popular eatery. A busy cab driver takes a break from zooming across the streets of the capital to complete his lesson for the day over a steaming cup of tea.
Three school-going brothers in Dharavi huddle around their mother’s phone, all ready to master the English language.