A common error in the use of the language by over-enthusiastic speakers and writers, is a combination of two or more incompatible metaphors

Shashi Tharoor explains the history of the term that has taken the internet by storm

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar recently won plaudits, particularly in Muslim countries, for his confident assertion of the country’s strategic autonomy concerning the Ukraine war. But then the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party unleashed more Hindu-chauvinist rhetoric, severely damaging India’s standing in the Islamic world.

We seem to have a government that can’t distinguish between itself and the political party that dominates it.

There are four types of misprints that tend to evoke hilarity

Here are the origins of some more Americanisms that are in common usage wherever English is spoken

Shashi Tharoor's World of Words is a weekly column in which the politician, diplomat, writer and wordsmith par excellence dissects words and language

Even if you didn’t know the term, you’re surely using homonyms all the time

Turkey, the country, has no native turkeys

The Ukraine war has already affected us in India, and most of the rest of the world

How Neutrality on Ukraine Weakens India