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...

War has descended on the north-western suburbs of Kyiv since Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine on February 24, his forces ed...

The clubs’ elite image made them easy targets for politicians.

Narendra Modi has thrown out the previous government’s time-pass gimmicks of (un-empowered) Groups of Ministers and Empowered Groups of Min...

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is becoming increasingly common.

For the Congress, much will depend on whether the chief minister can expand his famed Ahinda formula, the Kannada acronym for minorities, b...

Christopher Oldstone-Moore view on unshaven history is likely to stand unchallenged for some time.

The 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...

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...

Of course, the best practice would be to express oneself using original prose in simple English, shorn of both cliches and jargon.

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

Osama, an ardent follower of Sayyid Qutb, had this crazy vision of a pan-Islamic world which stayed with him all his life.

News is one of the last remaining genuinely secretive states in the world has produced the much sought-after elixir of life.

Impersonators desire for living a little bit like how the powerful babus do.

Dubai looks like a desert mirage built to rival the sheen and glitz of Las Vegas.