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Knowing when to shut up. Humans, talking for thousands of years, still do not have that basic instinctOnly 2% of our parleys end when we want them to.
Chitchatting skill is no small matterGive small talk its due as a professional requisite and not as just a social pastime.
Mamata Banerjee claims attempts to break TMC after Adhikari family gives her rally a missNot just Suvendu, but the entire Adhikari family, father Sisir Adhikari and brothers Dibyendu and Soumendu, were conspicuous by their absen...
Why sesquipedalian loquaciousness?A recent study links incomprehensible words and jargon to lack of substance.
Naga political solution has to be achieved within a year: P B AcharyaOutgoing governor P B Acharya expressed hope that the new governor will deliver goods to the people and work for the solution of the Naga p...
Other tongues still add spice to englishA few of them seem to have immediate relevance to Indian users of English, though our own regional languages also regularly add masala to a...
Time for Trump to dump landlines?With more sophisticated means of communication at hand, it is quaint that the world’s most-powerful people do not prefer video chatting ove...
BJP govt in Centre and Assam will benefit the state: Kiren RijijuA BJP government in Assam and at the Centre will benefit both the state and the North East, Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju s...
The danger of saying it with emojisWith 17 million emojis being exchanged daily now just on Twitter, and many more millions elsewhere, the face of communication is clearly ch...
- Time for interlocutors to pack up from J&K?
The question being raised here is whether, owing to their differences and the failure to meet their objectives, the team has outlived its u...
- Contagious inflections
The most effective way to communicate is to speak in the same accent if not the same language.
- Dwarfed by correctness
Weeding out of words newly deemed to be inappropriate impacts the status of English as the prime medium of subtle slander.
- Stop ball-by-ball commentary on J&K dialogue: PC
Even as he credited the J&K interlocutors on somewhat changing the “discourse” in the state, Union home minister P Chidambaram on Monday so...
- Interlocutors should refrain from ball-by-ball commentary: PC
The interlocutors on Kashmir were today asked by Union Home Minister P Chidambaram to refrain from giving a "ball-by-ball commentary" about...
- Words in waiting
Adopt or reject, don't store English words.
- CPM meet on Oct 18 to chart out modalities of withdrawal
The decision to convene the meeting comes in the backdrop of Centre’s plans to approach the IAEA in mid-October for working out the India-s...
- Kanimozhi may join Team Manmohan
Tamil Nadu chief minister and DMK chief M Karunanidhi has hinted that his daughter Kanimozhi is expected to become minister in the Union go...