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If you have not heard of the movie The Kerala Story, you are not an Indian. It was released recently and has sharply polarized public...

During the course of their work, academic copyeditors often meet strange words. An online search with keywords drawn from the context of...

(October 11, 2023 update: A new Indian edition of the book has just been published by Aleph under the title Three Countries, Three Lives:...

In the book To Kill a Democracy: India's Passage to Despotism by Debashish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane, I came across this sentence...

The sentence (suitably disguised for confidentiality) stopped me in my tracks: "The absence of pregnancy and lactation may explain the...

The book I was editing was about personal transformation for corporate managers. The author was a well-known coach. The language was so...

The difference between summation and sum should be clear enough: summation is the process of adding, whereas a sum is the result of the...

On a hot afternoon many years ago, a trainee editor walked in with furrowed brow and deposited the following offending sentence in my...

Twelve years ago, I emailed a friend, congratulating him on his impending marriage. A few days later, we spoke, and he questioned my use...

This is a terribly worded public health message that seems to be spreading like a virus: it is now appended to routine SMSs from public...

Double punctuation is ugly, but unavoidable sometimes. For example, it appears in dialogue: He said, "I try to avoid double punctuation."...

In a previous post (on researcher name coincidences), I mentioned Indian and British English: A Handbook of Usage and Pronunciation by...

The typo is the bane of the copyeditor. However careful I am, I'll invariably find a handful during my final read. It could be an extra...

For many years, we used 3M storage products for data backup in the company where I worked, and I always thought there was something wrong...

Humor and academia are an unlikely combination, and I didn't think they could coexist until I read Academia Obscura: The Hidden Silly...