Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj passed away on Tuesday. From being tagged the 'supermom' of India by Washington Post to becoming one of the most followed politicians on Twitter, the former external affairs minister had truly struck a chord with young and old alike with her round-the-clock social media presence, eagerness to help, and ready wit on social media. Here's a look at how she won Twitterati's hearts.
Good English doesn't need a fake accent. Just pronounce every word correctly and clearly.
The Indo-American Society, Mumbai, is conducting an English Usage and Conversation course and an Advanced English Conversation course.
Allan Jones is visually challenged since birth but he still turns up to take his designated seat whenever there is a Test match at the Basin Reverse.
'I never imagined that there would come a day when the NBA game would be seen and heard by Indian fans in their own language.'
Fitter Solutions, a communication consultancy, offers a training programme for professionals and aspiring professionals in multinational corporations and the BPO industry to help improve their communication skills.
'When he said, "Extremists have gone very extreme," it suddenly occurred to me why his speech pattern seemed so familiar. He was that uncle that you get stranded with at a family gathering when everybody else has gone to sleep but there is still some whisky left in the bottle. And uncle thinks he is about to say something very profound -- if you would only pour him one last one.'
The RBI, which has no interest or mechanism to get feedback from bank customers, is unaware of this. If made aware, it remains silent, proving that it has no problem in allowing lenders to short-change its customers, says Debashis Basu.
When do you use 'practise' and when do you use 'practice'? We continue with our English blooper series.
Do you sometimes not use a word simply because you don't know how to use it correctly?
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Leaders from all political parties congratulated the saffron party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
On a dating app, you have 0.5 seconds to decide whether you like someone enough before you go to their bio and connect with them, ays Ravi Mittal, founder of the dating app QuackQuack.
'The best thing about this team is that no one leaves it for someone else to finish the job,' Rahul Dravid tells Faisal Shariff.
Who better than India's beloved storyteller to teach you how to spin a yarn?
'I didn't know how I would say all the loving, romantic bits.'
The essay is all about demonstrating who you are, says Syam Chandra.
Sona College of Technology's integrated Japanese course has helped seven engineering graduates find jobs with six-figure salaries in Japan.
Gone are the days when your CAT preparation strategy meant studying for your strengths and leaving out the weaker areas!
Studying English demands you to invest time to learn and practice new words and expressions.
'It is a sad day when social activists, environmental campaigners, anti-corruption workers are singled out as anti-nationals and then criminalised.'
The TOEFL scores are accepted by more universities than any other English language test. You can take the test as many times as you wish.
Fevicol has played with its advertising to convert an adhesive, a product that bore none of the glamour and glitz of consumer goods, into a loved and recalled brand.
As the issue became a hot topic of discussion among citizens on social media platforms, Chaudhary, who claims to hold a master of business administration degree, came out with a clarification, saying he deliberately misspelt the word to test the ability of schoolchildren to detect spelling errors.
'On as many as two occasions, Sita is called upon to take a test to establish her integrity and loyalty to Rama and on both the occasions she opts for a course of action on her own terms,' points out A K Bhattacharya, reviewing Bibek Debroy's translation of the Ramayana.
'I got a very simple one-line brief from Ekta Kapoor that this character is like the Ramayan's Ram -- ideal husband, son and maryada purushottam.'
Pavan K Varma, diplomat, writer and politician, embarks on a quest about Hinduism's great thinker's stay in Varanasi.
The LaLit plans to market its Indian food restuarant Baluchi separately and take it abroad too.
If you want to grow in your career you should be open to learning, have problem solving skills and be a team player, says Shrutidhar Paliwal.
If the classical language is to live in India, its teachers and fans must separate their love for the language from that for the country or their religion, feels Arundhuti Dasgupta
The apex court had questioned the poll panel's notification and said that NOTA was meant to be exercised by individual voters in direct polls.
