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Word of the Day: CacozeliaWord of the Day: Using overly complicated vocabulary simply to impress others can itself become a form of cacozelia. The real distinction c...- Word of the Day: MagniloquentWord of the day: In an age where communication oscillates between brevity and spectacle, magniloquent shows language’s theatrical power. Gr...
- Word of the day: GrandiloquentGrandiloquent is a word that explains language or speech that is overly defined, pompous, or showy, often intended to impress rather than i...
- Word of the Day: SesquipedalianAs today’s Word of the Day, sesquipedalian reminds us that language is elastic. It can be stretched, compressed, embellished or stripped ba...
- Shashi Tharoor’s English finally meets its match, and his Hindi comeback is pure goldShashi Tharoor, known for his extensive vocabulary, faced a playful challenge on social media after defending India against US Treasury Sec...
- Kyiv psychiatric home puts brave face on warWar has descended on the north-western suburbs of Kyiv since Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine on February 24, his forces ed...
- Club food for the soul: Does its future lie in the international discovery of its curiously comforting appeal?The clubs’ elite image made them easy targets for politicians.
- Narendra Modi government on road to revive 'brand India'Narendra Modi has thrown out the previous government’s time-pass gimmicks of (un-empowered) Groups of Ministers and Empowered Groups of Min...
- No full stops in political pedantryHippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is becoming increasingly common.
- Winning Karnataka key to BJP’s quest for Congress-mukt Bharat; will Yeddyurappa, be a part?For the Congress, much will depend on whether the chief minister can expand his famed Ahinda formula, the Kannada acronym for minorities, b...
- 'Of Beards and Men' review: Pleasurable to the lay readerChristopher Oldstone-Moore view on unshaven history is likely to stand unchallenged for some time.
- North Korea goes bonkers; the South’s Iron Lady respondsThe latest was a barb aimed at South Korea’s female President, Park Geun-Hye, laced with a brand of Korean sexism. Skirts that swish, it se...
- Salman Rushdie to play Punjabi thug in Deepa Mehta's movie on Canada’s gangstersWinner of Booker of Bookers, Salman Rushdie says he will play “a very urbane sophisticated dada” in Deepa Mehta’s upcoming.
- India Growth Story: All hype and no action?Our inglorious meltdown at Olympics is another pointer telling us that it's high time we disabused ourselves of the notion that we are goin...
- Communication still has to choose between cliches and jargonOf course, the best practice would be to express oneself using original prose in simple English, shorn of both cliches and jargon.
- Pakistan tries to proscribe text messages with offensive contentThe surprise is that list of proscribed words is longer in English than in Urdu, but containing much Punjabiisms, & even Kashmiri tidbits.
- It's all in the mindOsama, an ardent follower of Sayyid Qutb, had this crazy vision of a pan-Islamic world which stayed with him all his life.
- Getting brainy in North KoreaNews is one of the last remaining genuinely secretive states in the world has produced the much sought-after elixir of life.
- Sarkari conmenImpersonators desire for living a little bit like how the powerful babus do.
- Mirage in the desertDubai looks like a desert mirage built to rival the sheen and glitz of Las Vegas.
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