My Articles
How body parts double up in English language
21/April/2022
It turns out that human body parts lend themselves particularly well to this kind of adaptation
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Tharoor Line | Imran Khan's 'khuddar qaum' ploy is a subtle attack on Pak military
20/April/2022
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UN failed to prevent Russia’s aggression. Yet, it can’t be written off
19/April/2022
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Shashi Tharoor, E D Mathew write: The international body’s stature has been diminished by its inability to hold superpowers to account and stop wars. But its record in peace-keeping, delivering humanitarian relief is formidable
A diplomat's choice of words
15/April/2022
Shashi Tharoor's World of Words is a weekly column in which the politician, diplomat, writer and wordsmith par excellence dissects words and language
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What Is India Doing in Ukraine?
07/April/2022
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The Ukraine war has exposed India’s strategic vulnerabilities as arguably nothing else could. Paradoxically, the conflict has also increased the country’s importance and, in the short term, widened its options – but the government has so far largely failed to capitalize.
How about virtual museums, asks Shashi Tharoor
03/April/2022
Art history comes alive with integration of digital technology
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Did you know these English words originated from Japanese?
01/April/2022
Japanese culture gives us such words as geisha, haiku, kimono, wasabi, and zen, as well as several terms from Japanese martial arts
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In previous columns, I’ve talked about the remarkable capacity of the English language to borrow and absorb, in regular usage, words from other languages. I’ve mentioned words that originated in French and German before coming into common use in English, and I’ve done two columns of words that originated in a variety of Indian languages. But an even more unlikely contender for loaning words to the English language is Japanese. A couple of weeks ago, I introduced you all to tsundoku, which refer
25/March/2022
Shashi Tharoor's World of Words is a weekly column in which the politician, diplomat, writer and wordsmith par excellence dissects words and language
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These 5 words are actually derived from proper names of people
10/March/2022
If “blurb” seemed an unlikely eponym, so too does “candy”, which traditional linguists believe is derived from the Sanskrit word Kharidakah
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Shashi Tharoor on the rise of mandatory hyper-nationalism
06/March/2022
India became illiberal; in the name of authenticity, we risk losing decency
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Be bold, be brief, be gone: 13 famous anaphoras you must remember
17/February/2022
Anaphora helps reinforce understanding because its repetitions make it easier to remember
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We are seeing dramatic technological progress in five areas: Shashi Tharoor
30/January/2022
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How French conquered English
20/January/2022
William’s followers became a new French ruling class and, like colonizers everywhere, imposed their language on the society they now ruled
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