Garrulous is a unique word which describes someone who talks excessively, often about trivial matters, and struggles to remain quiet. This ...

Such reunions are lovely. But we'd rather have Paul McCartney send Ringo Starr a secret missive - a cryptic bass line, perhaps - for a Beat...

The Age of Noise challenges the Arabic proverb 'Speech is silver, silence is golden.' Embracing silence amid the loudness of modern life is...

Loudness is not really seen as a problem in these parts of the world. Libraries, hospitals, educational institutions, planes and trains tha...

Give small talk its due as a professional requisite and not as just a social pastime.

The PM’s suggestion of using India’s linguistic diversity as a bridge is not difficult.

All those with a penchant for neologisms should keep this important distinction in mind when formulating and laying claim to catchwords and...

That trees manage to ‘travel’ (via flyaway seedlings and pollen-bearing insects) while remaining deeply rooted, is another quality that the...

A day after Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana shared dais setting aside their political differences, Union Minister M Venkaia...

Union minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy raked up a controversy by alleging that Kumar's DNA has "gone wrong" after aligning with RJD supremo Lalu ...

Kumar said NDA government's boastful statements on Myanmar attack proved that it lacked "sensitivity" towards matter having International r...

Celebrated as Bhumi-Sparsh Mudra, that gesture is about coming firmly down to earth after soaring into Satori.

Jangalmahal is preparing to go to polls on May 7 in the shadow of Maoist threat who are urging the tribals to go with NOTA.

They may speak out of turn sometimes but as they are restricted to the vocabulary of those around them, they cannot say anything truly orig...

Man, it is said, was born to be condemned to a state of loneliness.

The more I travel, the more I realise that some countries are oh-so-similar to our own. And I don’t necessarily mean the usual suspects lik...

It may be time for PSU brass and bureaucrats in ministries in charge of disinvestment-bound companies to clam up. The government has decide...