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Test Your Big Cat IQ

The homecoming of the cheetah to India leads one to wonder what exactly are the differences between it and leopards that, often visibly, prowl India's jungles and countryside? Do you know the......

Tharoor tweets new word, takes dig at Modi's beard

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, known for his penchant for rarely used English words, sent the Twitterati running for their dictionaries on Friday with another head scratcher -- pogonotrophy.......

Floccinaucinihilipilification: Tharoor's latest tongue-twister

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, known for his penchant for rarely used, difficult-to-pronounce English words, on Friday threw in another head scratcher -- floccinaucinihilipilification. The noun,......

COVID-19 adds new words to the dictionary!

'Great social change brings great linguistic change, and that has never been truer than in this current global crisis.'Suhit K Sen lists the changes one can expect to find in the dictionary post......

When will Indians stop killing each other for the cow?

'The cow can always be the CAUSE.''Cause for murder. Cause for setting India's people against each other.''Not recognising the fact that this can tip the country into an unending spiral of civil......

Mr Modi, it's time you reformed the IAS!

Contrary to the popular belief that the IAS cadres manage the country - they are actually required to manage politicians, most of whom do not pass any sort of muster, says T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.......

Why West Bengal is lagging behind other states

For the Bengal government, there is no alternative to revising user charges and also creating a strong industrial base, rues Ashok Lahiri In March 2014, before the Lok Sabha elections, Professors......

Five best ways to deal with pink slips

No one seems to know where the term ‘pink slip’ originated. The Oxford English Dictionary notes that the words were first used as a verb in a novel written in 1966 -- “his wife......

Who benefits from reforms?

There are two quick ways to advertise your modernity in India today. The first is to carry an iPad when you go for meetings, even if all you do with it is read email; and the second is to declare......

5 reasons Kolaveri Di became a HUGE hit online

If Hinglish, (Hindi-English) made its way to the Oxford Dictionary, Tanglish (Tamil-English) will soon have to be considered as well thanks to a song that is the rage on the Internet. A song that......

Was Bombay Jayashri's Life of Pi song inspired?

There are remarkable similarities between Bombay Jayashri's Oscar-nominated song in Life of Pi and Irayimman Thampi's age-old composition. We make a case for the 200-year-old melody.Almost every......

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Test Your Big Cat IQ

Tharoor tweets new word, takes dig at Modi's beard

Floccinaucinihilipilification: Tharoor's latest tongue-twister

COVID-19 adds new words to the dictionary!

When will Indians stop killing each other for the cow?

Mr Modi, it's time you reformed the IAS!

Why West Bengal is lagging behind other states

Five best ways to deal with pink slips

Who benefits from reforms?

5 reasons Kolaveri Di became a HUGE hit online

Was Bombay Jayashri's Life of Pi song inspired?

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