Techie fights wordsmith: How the electoral battle of Thiruvananthapuram is unfoldingAn iconic electoral battle unfolds in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, as veteran politician Shashi Tharoor of Congress faces off against techpr...
16 Mar, 2024, 08.19 PM IST
'Spiderman' Tom Holland to return as Romeo in evergreen Shakespearean tragedyHolland was most recently seen in the Apple TV+ series 'The Crowded Room'. His last feature film was 2022's 'Uncharted'.
07 Feb, 2024, 10.50 PM IST
Wordsmith Shashi Tharoor strikes again, adds 'Quockerwodger' to his 'Tharoorosaurus'The 66-year-old was kind enough to share the meaning of the word as well.
21 Apr, 2022, 04.34 PM IST
After Twitter 'kerfuffle', Tharoor sets record straight with footage from Nehru's US visitsIt may have just been a "kerfuffle", as the wordsmith politician put it, but one that clearly needed some recall from history.
26 Sep, 2019, 04.51 PM IST
A Renaissance of Epeolatry: A catalogue of unusual words for the logophileGiven the rising interest in unusual words concise books such as these are welcome as no one really has the time to trawl through the many ...
26 Apr, 2018, 10.57 PM IST
Levidrome to inspire budding wordsmithsIf it is finally enshrined in a dictionary after having swiftly made it to online versions, levidrome would be an eponym — a noun named aft...
21 Nov, 2017, 10.52 PM IST
Wordplay: Tamara Resorts CEO Shruti Shibulal to hold fort at Bengaluru lit festWriters and readers will get together to discuss the role and importance of business literature in business education.
08 Aug, 2017, 12.22 PM IST
English only expands, never contractsEvery word still finds utterance in some nook of the Anglosphere.
21 Mar, 2017, 12.22 AM IST
View: Trumpisms and Bushisms constitute the very essence of AmericanismsDonald Trump’s (perhaps) unintended coining of a new word – “unpresidented” – is hardly unprecedented.
22 Dec, 2016, 12.42 PM IST
On the grapevine: Writer describes upheaval in corporate India as a 'sham'The entire show had the patronage of the same business house, at which the said person of letters was an honoured guest.
28 Nov, 2016, 09.09 AM IST
Humour gets scientific as researchers measure the giggle quotient of wordsThe researchers’ discovery that the giggle quotient depends on how much it deviates from an instinctive ‘normal’ combination of letters, so...
10 Dec, 2015, 04.42 AM IST
Atal Bihari Vajpayee realised virtues of both consensus & harmony: Arun Jaitley"Atalji is the product of a democratic system, and trained in parliamentary values. He realised the virtues of both consensus and harmony.....
24 Dec, 2014, 10.37 PM IST
Can Scrabble afford to induct words like LOL, OMG into its dictionaryThe question is moot whether Scrabble's authorities can afford to be so stingy — new entries only once a decade, on an average — at a time ...
17 Mar, 2014, 06.07 AM IST
Entrepreneurs turning into wordsmiths to chronicle highs & lows of startupsAs India’s startup boom gains pace, entrepreneurs are turning into wordsmiths to chronicle the highs and lows of launching a business.
04 Jan, 2014, 02.12 AM IST
- Welcome re-scent developments
Smell was an important element of a composite memory — along with touch and taste — that could not be recorded by a gadget and recreated.
04 Jul, 2013, 04.00 AM IST
- Communication still has to choose between cliches and jargon
Of course, the best practice would be to express oneself using original prose in simple English, shorn of both cliches and jargon.
30 Jan, 2012, 01.19 AM IST
- 'NSG should impose conditions before granting waiver to India'
A top non-proliferation expert has asked the NSG to come up with "clear and unambiguous" guidelines relating to nuclear trade with India.
23 Aug, 2008, 07.19 AM IST