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Rightfully, English is not only an international language now but people of other countries in the Commonwealth and elsewhere have adopted it as their official language.

How the OED became ubiquitous in Indian homes

This is where the vocabulary dictionaries score over them as they have more number of headwords.

23 Feb 2019 2:57 AM IST

Inside the Kabul Public Library

A library can be a boon for Afghanistan's children

The history of imperial conquests shows that one of the first places of attack of the invading Army is the library.

13 Jan 2019 2:16 AM IST

In referring to hot dogs, the term â€œdogâ€ is a reference to the sausage but not to its contents

No more flogging a dead horse

In the popular television series, Better Call Saul, Saul Goodman often has his client meetings outside a popular hot dog...

15 Dec 2018 8:31 AM IST

Journalist-turned-childrens author Shabnam Minwallas What Maya Saw (Harper Collins, 2017) is one among the three shortlisted under the Young Adult Books category. (Representional Image)

Book hand-sellers are as rare as ivory-billed woodpecker in Arkansas'

Lynne bemoaned that hand-sellers were as rare nowadays as the ivory-billed woodpecker in Arkansas .

16 Nov 2018 2:25 AM IST

Emile Victor Rieu

When a cow turns into a rakshak'

He was a scholar and academic trained in the classics.

31 Aug 2018 5:51 AM IST

The traditional language books which will have poetry, prose and grammar in a separate order, subject experts and curriculum committee have designed new Tamil and English books.

Meanwhile: Fikry, an eccentric bookseller and a doting father

Fikry is 38, a widower having lost his wife in a car accident two years ago.

6 July 2018 6:45 AM IST

Bezos believed that the print book had existed for far too long ever since Gutenberg had invented movable type and thereby mechanised printing in the 1450s.

It's important to nurture and endure reading habit

Reading from a print format helps develop imagination and conjure visions in the mind.

9 Jun 2018 3:26 AM IST

Whatever happened to plain, simple English?

Sometimes even the dictionary could prove inadequate.

25 May 2018 5:03 AM IST

William Shakespeare (Photo: AP)

Workers' plight akin to Shakespeare's tragdies

When Shakespeare died in 1616, 18 of his plays, among them the more famous Shakespeare tragedies died with him.

30 March 2018 3:33 AM IST

Textbooks for secondary classes to have colourful images and age-appropriate fonts.

With everything recorded in books, what happens to memory?

The art of writing was discovered initially in Mesopotamia and then in Egypt.

29 Dec 2017 2:20 AM IST

Real shanghai mathematics by Huang Xingfeng Collins.

Doing better in maths: Chinese tips

Malcolm Gladwell in his book The Outliers states we have different number-naming systems in Western and Asian languages.

26 Nov 2017 6:37 AM IST