When she took the test for a diplomatic interpreter with the United States State Department, several years ago, she didn’t know that in the years ahead she would have the rare opportunity to meet heads of states from around the world – without actually being part of any diplomatic corps. But Indian origin woman Gurdeep Kaur Chawla, now based in California and director at Indian Language Services LLC, had this firm conviction that with all those hours, days, months and years spent at minutely listening to archived speeches from India’s parliament sessions, with the headphone firmly in place over her ears, she had enough wherewithal to ace her role as an interpreter at some point in her career.
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