As today’s Word of the Day, sesquipedalian reminds us that language is elastic. It can be stretched, compressed, embellished or stripped ba...

Shashi Tharoor, known for his extensive vocabulary, faced a playful challenge on social media after defending India against US Treasury Sec...

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is becoming increasingly common.

Winner of Booker of Bookers, Salman Rushdie says he will play “a very urbane sophisticated dada” in Deepa Mehta’s upcoming.

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...

The surprise is that list of proscribed words is longer in English than in Urdu, but containing much Punjabiisms, & even Kashmiri tidbits.