Indian English is the only language that uses the expression 'non-veg' for meat, fish, and those who consume them. A fascinating extract from Shashi Tharoor's A Wonderland of Words: Around the Word in 101 Essays.
Indian graduates face tougher English tests, shorter post-study stays, higher costs and stricter settlement rules as Britain rolls out sweeping immigration reforms.
The Oxford English Dictionary recently added several new words from Indian English.
iOS operating system provides Indian English support to its digital personal assistant.
The inaugural Sri Lanka Premier League will feature 56 foreign cricketers, not one of them Indian, after the seven franchises made their choices in a closed-door players' draft system in Colombo. Australia, with 18, provided the most players for the franchises, followed by 13 from Pakistan.
Purnendu Maji and Srinivas Bhogle list IPL 2021's 50 Most Valuable Players.
Sowmya's Instagram account imagining Raja Rava Verma's muses as modern Indian women is winning the internet.
'Modest in its ambitions, eager in its naiveté, The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir is a kiddie fantasy masquerading as an adult's movie,' notes Sukanya Verma.
Indian kitchen goes global as 'keema', 'papad' are now included in the Oxford English Dictionary for the first time.
We love twisting the English language. But some phrases and idioms are so incorrect we suggest you stop using them, starting right now.
Love it or hate it, you simply cannot ignore apna #Indianisms, can you?
'It was the only moment in the three days of Obamania on Indian television that the poor Leftist leader -- no puns please -- looked bushed. So much so, that a rightwing party leader who was also on the panel reached out and gently pressed the Leftist's hand, as a father does to a wounded child.'
On this day, February 1, in 1976, the Kerala-born poet released her autobiography, My Story.
The first time filmmaker opens up about his curiously titled Indian-English film.
A list of prominent journalists who also became successful politicians.
'In the end, investing is about people.' 'If you get the right people, they make things happen,' Mengistu Alemayehu tells Shyamal Majumdar.
Now control the air-conditioning in your room from office!
Dear supporters of Indian English, take heart! You have company. :-)
Watch what you say! Because English, as we've known for some time now, is a 'phunny' language!
'That has always been my ambition -- to take the reader behind the scenes, to the places he was not allowed to visit, but which I had the privilege of entering.' Haresh Pandya remembers Ted Corbett, sports journalist extraordinaire, who passed into the ages on August 9.
Rajiv Malhotra's plagiarism may not be as horrifying as impersonating an exam candidate in Indore -- but they're both forms of cheating.
'Badlapur might end up being my most successful film,' producer Dinesh Vijan tells Patcy N/ Rediff.com
'I didn't want the biopic on Swami Chinmayananda to be a propaganda film,' filmmaker R S Prasanna tells Shobha Warrier/ Rediff.com
Martin Sorell on how effective is Modi's media strategy
Mihir S Sharma on the false opposition being created between 'governance' and 'vote bank politics'.
U R Ananthamurthy on the importance of keeping alive our regional languages.
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