Well, no, I didn’t. I fell in love with language as a child, and used the words I came across quite unselfconsciously, as a ...

A Wonderland of Words Around the World in 101 Essays Author: Shashi Tharoor Publisher: Aleph Book Company Price: Rs 999 ...

A perspicacious peregrination through the discombobulating gallimaufry that is the English language with its penchant for ...

Does Shashi Tharoor have a favourite word? “My favourite word is a four-letter one—read,” says the writer-politician, who ...

Parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor is a self-professed "etymological ... About Money': He compares the sheer volume of English-language words linked to money with the number of words the Inuit ...

The remarkable capacity of the English language to borrow and ... from A Wonderland of Words: Around the Word in 101 Essays, Shashi Tharoor, Aleph Book Company.

And who better to guide us through all this but the prodigious Shashi Tharoor ... meanings of uncommon words he bestowed on the unwary. Farrago, an addition to the English language way back ...

Shashi Tharoor shared that his favourite four-letter word is ‘read’ and that people need the capacity to either absorb, ...

Writer, politician and wordsmith Shashi Tharoor is out with a book of essays celebrating the magical world of words ...

In his new book, Shashi Tharoor takes readers on a tour of the words, concepts and particularities that constitute the ...

Parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor is a self-professed "etymological egghead". As a lifelong lover of words, Tharoor often gets asked what he recommends to someone who wants to improve their English ...