
Prayag's Blog
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French Vocabulary at CERN
Apr 27, 2025
I'm staying at CERN this summer (2025) as part of an HSF project! CERN, based in Geneva, is mostly French-speaking, so I thought it would be fun to keep a running list of French words I come across during my time here. I’ll keep updating it as I go! Genève -> Geneva Merci -> Thank you Bonjour ->…
The story of my birth
Jul 6, 2024
My parents and the family My parents had a child marriage in the 1980s in rural Uttar Pradesh, India. My father was 17, and my mother was 13. Back then, you never really had a say in your own marriage. When my father turned 22, he brought my mother to live with his extended family. As usual, there…