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Amitabh Ranjan
A former journalist, Amitabh Ranjan teaches at Patna Women's College.
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Mein Kampf: Revisiting Fuhrer for the last battleSubscriber Only
December 27, 2015 15:04 IST
‘Mein Kampf’ goes for print next month in Germany for the first time since the end of the World War II.
Sun, Dec 27, 2015
Of playing fields and battlefieldSubscriber Only
December 21, 2015 08:50 IST
To ‘meet one’s Waterloo’ implies an end to someone’s dominant position, an end to a winning spree or a decisive moment changing the course of events.
Mon, Dec 21, 2015
Official trips abroad: Govt seeks details of outcome, spendingSubscriber Only
December 08, 2015 03:35 IST
There is also a separate column on “Essentiality Grading” to indicate if the officer or minister’s inclusion was “mandatory, absolutely essential or essential”.
Tue, Dec 08, 2015
Gender neutrality: Watch your words, MxSubscriber Only
October 25, 2015 13:09 IST
It was the 1970s, otherwise a dull decade compared to the swinging 60s, that made a whole lot of feminisms becoming a source of new vocabulary.
Sun, Oct 25, 2015
Sanskrit, our very own LatinSubscriber Only
October 20, 2015 10:50 IST
Many Sanskrit words that are commonly used in English language have been borrowed in their original form and are facile means of communication.
Tue, Oct 20, 2015
The gender: To divide or not, that’s the questionSubscriber Only
October 05, 2015 12:04 IST
Unlike many other languages, English does not have grammatical gender. In English noun ending in -er or -or simply mean a ‘person who does something’.
Wed, Oct 07, 2015
Wordly Benefits: The war over genocideSubscriber Only
September 21, 2015 08:43 IST
Probably the earliest term to define the massacre of Jews has its origin in Czarist Russia. The word ‘pogrom’ literally means “devastation as if by a thunderbolt”.
Mon, Sep 21, 2015
Wordly Benefits: In black and whiteSubscriber Only
September 14, 2015 10:49 IST
Colour-coded words and expressions have entered English lexicon and have remained a part of it years after what they described does not have much of relevance except as historical references.
Mon, Sep 21, 2015
Wordly Benefits: From the singing sixtiesSubscriber Only
September 05, 2015 14:19 IST
In Britain, the Merseybeat reversed many years of American dominance of pop charts and the Beatlemania that sent popsters, groupies and teeny-boppers into a frenzy soon spread to the US.
Sat, Sep 05, 2015
Wordly Benefits: Dope on the changing English lexiconSubscriber Only
August 29, 2015 08:00 IST
Social media and mobile technology are the predominant themes of 2015 as far as new words vying for use are concerned.
Mon, Aug 31, 2015
Wordly Benefits: A yen for JapaneseSubscriber Only
August 22, 2015 08:00 IST
The worst sufferer of nuclear warfare, Japan has risen phoenix-like and today is synonymous with not only technological advancement but lifestyle innovations as well.
Sat, Aug 22, 2015
Wordly Benefits: Pigs, monkeys and other animals in the dictionarySubscriber Only
August 15, 2015 13:06 IST
Animal stories are something that children start learning first. They make a lasting impression because of their sheer innocence to which kids can so easily relate to.
Sat, Aug 15, 2015
Wordly Benefits: Cecil might be gone, but animals continue to strengthen EnglishSubscriber Only
August 08, 2015 19:50 IST
Here’s a look at some of the interesting expressions referring to animals that have found their way into our dictionaries.
Sat, Aug 08, 2015
Shakespeare’s English: The Bard’s contribution to the Queens languageSubscriber Only
July 20, 2015 19:21 IST
In speeches, writings, acting, day-to-day conversations, allusions to Shakespeare is a measure of one’s expertise over the language.
Mon, Aug 10, 2015
Wordly Benefits: Going auld school in the other PatnaSubscriber Only
July 11, 2015 10:36 IST
About 11,000 km away from the Bihar capital, its namesake lies in the East Ayrshire Council area of Scotland.
Sat, Jul 11, 2015Wordly benefits: A touch of FrenchSubscriber Only
July 04, 2015 14:22 IST
When we speak of French words, we generally mean Latin words once removed, for French is a Romance language.
Sat, Jul 04, 2015
Wordly Benefits: It shouldn’t be Greek to youSubscriber Only
June 27, 2015 14:32 IST
An account of the Greco-Latin terms embraced by the English language and their origins.
Sun, Jun 28, 2015
The Magna Carta charter: Say much in littleSubscriber Only
June 20, 2015 13:57 IST
This is in large part due to Latin’s ability to offer multum in parvo, meaning ‘much in little’. We look at a few Latin expressions which are more vivid and compact than their English equivalents.
Sat, Jun 20, 2015
Wordly benefits: Balkanization is onSubscriber Only
June 13, 2015 13:43 IST
Balkan is a Turkish word meaning ‘mountain’. Comprising 11 countries besides parts of Greece and Turkey, there is no universal agreement on the region’s components.
Sat, Jun 13, 2015When the iron curtain lifted to reveal the power of the flower childrenSubscriber Only
June 06, 2015 13:32 IST
The war of apocalyptic proportions left in its wake ties and trends which determined much of the geopolitics in the second half of the last century.
Sat, Jun 06, 2015
A war of wordsSubscriber Only
May 30, 2015 12:37 IST
Nuke, a nuclear weapon by late 50s, took the verb form as well in the following years, meaning to attack or destroy with nuclear weapons.
Sat, May 30, 2015Wordly benefits: On Sabbaticals and slain warriors of IsraelSubscriber Only
May 23, 2015 07:00 IST
Did you know that the vanquished members of an ancient tribe from Israel were slain by their rival tribe because they couldn't pronounce the sound 'sh' in shibboleth?
Thu, Jun 04, 2015
Never put your John Hancock on a blank chequeSubscriber Only
May 17, 2015 14:45 IST
On a more serious note, American quadrennial Presidential campaigns and political discourse in their wake have proved to be quite a quarry for the English language.
Sun, May 17, 2015
GREXIT, a lurking fearSubscriber Only
May 09, 2015 14:25 IST
You come across many a portmanteau word daily. Do you know what they are?
Sat, May 09, 2015
Cameron underlines the power of Hinglish, againSubscriber Only
May 02, 2015 10:01 IST
Prime Minister David Cameron tried to woo the Indian community with a slogan which took off from the Modi campaign: "Phir ek baar Cameron sarkar."
Sat, May 02, 2015Journalism of Courage
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