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Know your English: September 12

“Tell me, how is the word m..e..t..e pronounced?” “It’s pronounced like the word ‘meet’. Nowadays, this rather formal word is mostly used in the expre

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Know your english: August 15, 2016

S. Upendran “You were planning to visit your uncle on Sunday, weren’t you? Did you manage to....” “Yes, I managed to spend about two hours with him. As usual, I s

Know Your English Know Your English: August 8, 2016 S. Upendran How is the word ‘albeit’ pronounced? (J Sunitha, Hyderabad) The first syllable sounds like the word ‘all’ and the third like the word ‘it’. The ‘b

Know Your English Know Your English: August 1, 2016 S. Upendran “In the final scene, we have the heroine running at the villain and punching…” “Running at the villain? You mean ‘running after’ the villain, don’t yo

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Know Your English Know Your English: July 11 S. Upendran What is the meaning and origin of ‘playing to the gallery’? (Aloysius Edward, Pudukottai) This idiom which has a negative connotation has been aro

Know Your English Know Your English S. Upendran “I read about your new principal in the papers yesterday. What do you think of her?” “I haven’t been well the past couple of days. So, I haven’t been

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S. Upendran What is the opposite of ‘hibernate’? (TV Prasad, Nalgonda) An animal that sleeps through the winter months is said to ‘hibernate’. In everyday con

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Veils, Halos and Shackles by Kasva Press

Reviews Deeply disturbing, immensely redemptive Maithreyi Karnoor

Thanks to its curatorial ingenuity, this book would beequally at home in a Women’s Studies class and on a bibliophile’s bookshelf

Migrants, Refugees and the Stateless in South Asia; Partha S. Ghosh, Sage Publishing, Rs. 995.

Reviews Enlarging boundaries Govindan Nair

This meticulously researched work covers many aspects of trans-national migration in the South Asian region

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Seamlessly moving between worlds

Mini Anthikad Chhibber Being a hybrid author, Shweta Taneja says, allows her to experiment and explore all opportunities, mediums, and platforms available

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‘Writing for children is a responsibility’

R. Krithika Sudha Murthy talks about her process of writing, her books and her latest release, The Serpent’s Revenge

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The November stories

ANANDI MISHRA Many aspiring writers are furiously writing to get their novels completed before National Novel Writing Month ends

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Know your English — June 07, 2015 S. UPENDRAN

“Do you remember my friend Sudhakar? The chap who ...” “Sudhakar? Is he the chap who keeps running off at the mouth all the time?” “Keeps running off

Know your English — May 31, 2015 S. UPENDRAN

What is the meaning and origin of ‘go/come under the hammer’? (S Dongre, Bangalore) The expression is mostly used to refer to objects that are on

Know your English - April 12, 2015 S. UPENDRAN

What is the meaning of ‘swashbuckler’? (SA Faizal, Kottayam) This is an example of how the meaning of a word has changed over the years. Nowad

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Mini Kapoor “Living in the mountains is not a romance for everyone,” cautions Ruskin Bond while introducing Himalaya: Adventures, Meditations, Life (Speaking Tiger), an anthology he has edited along with Namita Gokhale. “Wresting a living from the stony, calcified soil does not leave much time for poetry and contemplation.” Yet, the rugged mountain range has drawn all kinds of people, adventurers, loners, mystics, ne’er-do-wells, and perhaps no one has been as open-heartedly hospitable to strangers as have

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Poetry Wire

Always trust the witches Keki N. Daruwalla

Let’s draw a circle on a sheet of paper and call it earth, say these poets

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