Words can be fun
It was close to midnight in April or May 2003 (I cannot recall). I was watching on television an interview of the then UK...
A bad word and its genesis
My aunt, who mothered me when I was in high school – that was about sixty-five years ago - would once in a while...
Our day-to-day language
It is generally believed that colourful and aesthetically appealing language is to be found in literary works and that the day-to-day language is flat,...
Reflections on the snail mail
It is Sasmita Kanungo’s sensitively written piece on her village postman, which I read long ago, that has triggered some thoughts in me on...
On Telephonic conversation
The other day I had a successful four-and a half-minute telephonic conversation with a friend of mine; by “successful” what I mean is that...
